The Titan’s Fall by Stewart Stafford
Colossus ship of the Titans,
Flames of Tartarus in its belly,
Unsinkable beneath the stars,
Champagne popped too soon.
In infinite glacial hubris,
Collided with its own ambition,
Immortal Gordian Knot slashed,
And freezing death crept aboard.
Cantering up Scotland Road,
Trojan Seahorse’s Achilles’ Heel,
Solitary children drowning,
In heartbroken submersion.
The River Styx fell silent,
But for whimpered prayers.
As Charon’s boat of death,
Ferried them to Hades.
The tangled Medusan wreckage,
Once a great wonder of the earth,
Plunged into an underworld abyss –
A terrible beauty on the seabed nests.
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