Tech and Poetry

Software engineer and writer mapping the space between code, poetry, and speculative technology.

The Slain

Your Father wasn’t who he claimed to be

Once was a god, he was like fruit so sweet

But rotten he suffered, falling far from me

I came upon a meadow, I asked him to meet

And his face no more I could bear to stand

So underground I forced him to retreat

Having nowhere to go, no air, sea, or land

Before Valhalla’s court, its own dispatchers

For none alive would henceforth he surround

Blazing fights from demons in heaven’s dead pastures

No beast from the underworld left unspared

Protected the light from darkened chapters

Then one day the gods had declared

That he was no longer to remain in sorrow

The gates of hell he ruined, never repaired

Then in that field under a tree of willow

I saw him there, a broken soul in his eyes

I fell in love again, my heart so hollow

Years grew cold and I dreamed of his demise

I reached back and undid what was history

And he never began in Valhalla to reside

Without his curse evil came with mystery

Ruing the day when he once was man

Because no longer did he have his victory

So back I went to when it had begun

And gave him the life I took at a cost

And unfolding what history had rerun

So at my death I know what was lost

And now I know because all this I see

And love the life I have uncrossed

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