we shall not love you the people cry we shall not worship or adore you and the Gods of Olympus sigh and though famine punish and surplus grant the people do not let up their chant.
Old Zeus grown weary through graying age as young as the day his father, slayed yet older in mind and wiser still has had enough of humanities fill. And thunderbolts he throws from his clouded sky and below the people cry "We shall not go quietly into the night!" "We deny you and so we'll fight!"
And Aphrodite, her beauty now common place a million mimicry's in plastic-made face paints war paint on cheek and brow and shouts with a dangerous frown "Raise your blades at me with dread!" "With Eos rise you'll all be dead!"
But plain Athena stays her hand and looks down on the rabid band with helmet and spear, in moonbeams clad she shakes her head, expression sad "Leave them be, my sister," "Do not let rise your anger."
But fair villain Beauty ran and clutched at another man "Ares!" cried the Goddess, "Act for me!" and bloodthirsty God, he got to his feet and with chariot of fire and wheels of bones and Discord and Malice singing their songs he rushed to do the bidding to a conflict that needed winning.
But Apollo's chariot drew close and blocked his path with the sun "No, Brother, do not go." "This is not a war to be won."
And below Demeter drew back her hand and crops and rivers dried to sand and Persephone never rose from her tomb to usher new life from springtimes womb and Hades fickle laugh with Hermes nervous snicker Artemis let wane the moon and stars flicker.
And darkness shut out a world malcontented left in darkness as the people lamented and Eos stayed abed for years at a time Prometheus fires wouldn't burn, the cities were slime and those that once were men were transformed once then again... and from the darkness there rose things with sightless eyes, creatures predisposed to live in blackness and filth by Fates three and banished were they to the depth of the sea.
And there they live still, in the Challenger Deep and further below even more of them sleep the creatures that once molested the God's door the myth, if that, of monsters called Noctor.