Perseus,
Won’t you come save us?
Can’t you hear our screams?
Don't they reach you up there?
There are monsters to fight down here, Perseus.
Won’t you come down?
We always need a good hero
And you were a great one
So come down
And save us
Because this world now
Has more monsters than ever before
And we are sorely lacking in
Heroes
No one stands up to the Gods anymore
And somehow
They’ve gotten more power
We built that tower
To try to reach you
To let you know that
We need you
Perseus!
I am talking to you!
Where have you been??
Why’d you leave us??
Don’t you still believe in us??
Perseus . . .
We can’t do this alone
We can’t take a God's throne
We don’t have anyone to sit on it afterwards
We are broken
Left hoping
That someone will save us
Medusa lives in our TV’s
And in our phones
We look at them
And are turned into stone
And Chronos has stolen our time
Dionysus has everyone drunk on wine
Aries is itching for war
Apollo hasn’t brought out the sun in awhile
Athena sits back and watches
Hermes zips around in our dreams
While aphrodite lives and breathes in everything
She created a culture that is obsessed with beauty
Hades has his handsful down there
And he doesn’t even need to come up to us
To torture us
We do that all on our own
Poseidon has been poisoned
And your father . . .
He’s running for president here
We are fucked, Perseus
If you could grab Achilles and Hercules
And help us fight off these monsters
I promise
That next year
I’ll probably help.
CH 12/23/23
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