Poet of the Week: Maurice Decaul
In The Meantime
The gods looking down from safety resume their dispute about humans
the interventionists argue for decisive but limited action
fire plague, while the pusillanimous remind the others of Diomedes
stabbing Aphrodite, Diomedes piercing Ares with his spear
the hubris of man. The apathetic throw up their hands
let man kill man his blood is his blood, they argue what is it to us
if he destroys himself & Zeus meant to speak up
but the debate had moved on to topics of importance
while below him, people marched & fought & declared their lives mattered.