Rapunzell's Poetry

Rapunzell's Poetry

Immortal Gods The Caraytid Fantasy Poems

Imortal Gods *

What right have we of mortal make
to create through belief immortal Gods?
We believe and so they are.
We insist so they exist.
We abandon, yet they live on.
Shadows now of what they were.
Shades of their former glory.
Immortal gods, they cannot die.
That we once believed sustains their life
long after belief moves on.
Abandoned by the peoples
whose belief brought them to be
We will them to be ever there
and yet our faith lasts not that long.
Immortal and forever there,
they cannot die, but forgotten, barely live.

* The (I gues you could call it) inspiration for this came from a quote I found in Douglas Adam's The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. "virtually everything the human race had ever chosen to believe in was true...[and]that it continued to be true long after the human race particularly needed it to be true any more."

The Caraytid*

A fallen caraytid
crushed beneath the weight
but beautiful none the less.
A martyr of strength
not of the body
but of the will.
Knowing she is crushed
but persisting on,
bearing her load,
in her own special triumph.
She is not beaten
for she endures that burden
too large for her
because it is her own.
and therein lies her beauty.

* Caraytids were statues of beautiful women, used as columns to support parts of ancient buildings. There is a statue of a fallen caraytid crushed beneath the stones she was made to hold, done by an artist who realized the shortcoming of this archetectural form: that such a load was too great for the bearer.