Annunaki

 

“The Whore of Babylon” by William Blake

 

seven judges
alive in the sky
long before
Greece imagined
the sisters
of Pleiades
fluent astronomers
royal of blood
gods divine of
a fiery flesh
cosmogenic
inducement of
human endeavor
between sacred
rivers whose
waters gave rise to
beginnings

beginnings
of letters
of history
scribed into clay
a cuneiform
seminal literature
power manifest
sparked by a
language designed
for the eye
and it pleased them
those gods who
would scrutinize
men and their
use of the intellect
given with hushed
cosmic breath

cosmic breath
who pronounced
on the wind
these remarkable
people of Sumer
these builders
of ziggurats
masons of
civilization
should cast
fertile crescent
hegemony
fattened through
four thousand years
giving life
a new order of
progress

progress
in its many
manifestations
of change
seven judges
became several
hundreds
in light of new
unholy ways
of transgression
even Gilgamesh
torn and revised
by the claws of
of that dark
whore of Babylon
her evil sown in
distant modernity