A waif plucked from death, by miracle born
Innocent of worldly way,
His cradle so cold and wanting of soul,
Just a prison bereft of stays.
Delivered amid a thundering storm,
Then left! Abandoned! Shunned! Forlorn!
The craven father just wouldn’t be bothered—
And so hurriedly scurried away.
His tutelage brief, surreptitious and free,
A school of one-room for the youth.
Letters he lacked were received through a crack
With love for both teacher and truth.
The servile student by one wasn’t seen,
While others grew cruel and forced him to flee.
When shot from behind for a deed that was kind,
Disdain grew wanton, uncouth.
But look at him now with high, broad brow!
Appraise his wondrous image!
Women who care at this marvel to stare
Would swoon upon glimpsing his visage.
Muscular form and sculpted features,
Such an incredibly stunning creature!
In truth it seems he’s a young woman’s dream,
A lost love in a nightly missive.
He presently broods over far distant sea,
Of his choosing pursued in the game,
Mourning the death of what kin he had left
And his own of the immolate flame.
Now odd to this riddle from ends unto middle
Seeking name seems certainly little,
But nameless the one in this poem now done,
A god’s gift modernity’s stain.