Thoughts 3.26.25

The stars go on their course, 
And the Dragon morphs before
My very eyes--his red eye moves;
There fought with David
Who struggles with Goliath
And Elisha's Bear stands close behind.
The Pyramids have a secret unlocked---
Or so says all the evangelists,
Great depths of catacombs
Impossibly drilled kilometers deep
Which I know must be modern---
I say it is the palace of a king
And his underground hot springs.
Egypt and Babylon were opposite---
Egypt artistic, humorous, and fat
Babylon calculating, defensive, and harsh.
For the great society of empires
They begin light, free and perfect
And humanity dwells most richly in their bones
And due to complexity they grow tyrannical---
For complex civilization grows more controlling.
And  then they die  by the hands of barbarians
And the peoples are once again free.
And we can hold these views simultaneously
That on Planet Earth there are always  
Good and Bad civilizations;
The despotic is in us as well as liberty.
And oh Northern King of Grecia
Edom you are called---
You make your house upon the moon.
Oh Southern King of Persia
Egypt you are called---
You make your house in the depths of the Earth.
Edom, you torment your foes in your prisons upon the moon
And  gaze at Jotunheim beneath the Earth's circle, and the continents a crown;
Egypt, you Dragon of the Sea, fill your hot springs in your chambers
And have a door to hell, which you walk through into the Layer of Beelzebub.