NO ESCAPE FROM RECKONING

So, no avenger for Hector but the gods

as a war gets its fitting end:

A babe thrown down from a tower

to ensure that the fate of Ilion

shall not follow its conquerors

over that dark wine sea.

Yet, Fate to which even the gods

are bound by chains of iron,

will see the bones of many men

who now watch the sacrifices on the mounds

of maidens to the dead

not resting in their home soil

but beneath those waves, inviting

in the bloody dark dusk

like a trap ready to be sprung.

25.04.2018