Hubris

Like many men
he claimed gifts from the gods:

strong-in-the-arm;
evil-in-ale.
An unstoppable force

he was part-heroic, semi-divine

a natural catastrophe,
which struck the house on fridays

teaching mother
that she offended the deities

with her contentment,

their happy home.

 

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