Song of Sophia

24 July 2014

I. Akrasia

When there were no depths, I was brought forth,  
    When there were no springs abounding with water.  

Time slipped, fell
through black holes
to where I dwelt,

Stillborn in a rotting womb,
with histories untold.

I cut my own cord.

Day by day I played
between Olympian plains
and Horeb,

Learning nothing,

For the ground had been well-tread
by tanks and wise men
teaching shadows

HEY
   THIS JUST IN
HEY
   ERECTILE
      DYSFUNCTION
HEY
   LOOK
      KITTENS
HEY
   BIKINIS
HEY
    HAVE YOU SEEN
HEY
    YOU THERE ??
HEY
    I LOVE YOU.
HEY
    LOVE ME <3
HEY

II. Nostoi

Does not wisdom cry out,  
    And understanding lift up her voice?  

Thunder roars,
and as a man who pants for water
sees the rock break,

And sees the streams long dried by drought
begin to flow,
and drinks,

So too I flee the wasteland.

III. Paideia

To you, O men, I call,  
    and my voice is to the sons of men.  

I gaze upon a field grown ripe with wheat
and feel the warmth of rosy-fingered Dawn
who has not failed to rise. I grip the scythe,

And take upon myself beginnings
and their ends, and find this meaning
sicut erat in principio.