He comes from the East, <br />Exhaling energy, <br />Belching bolts of lightning, <br />Shooting solar flares from his eyes. <br />Wearing his rayed crown, <br />He slays dark dragons <br />While golden sheets of electricity <br />Ripple over his body <br />In crackling waves <br />Endlessly. <br /> <br />Emerging from the primordial egg <br />At the dawn of time, <br />Wrapped in his faithful serpent, <br />He bound Prometheus & <br />Left him throbbing & blinking <br />In his blinding, savage energy. <br /> <br />Then the priest unsheathed his dagger, <br />& Slayed the bull. <br />Splashing blood on the alter <br />In the candlelit underground grotto <br />To honor 'the light of the world, ' <br />Born on the winter solstice, <br />The day of Sol Invictus, <br />December 25th. <br />In hoc signo vinces, <br />Said Constantine, <br />'The struggle for deathlessness <br />Must be free.' <br /> <br />And still we wait for him, <br />The lion-headed <br />Sustainer & giver of life, <br />The worker of miracles <br />Who stubbornly stays in heaven, <br />Nimbate, immense & imperishable.<br /><br />Susan Marie Watkins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deus-sol-invictus/
