Sunrise

From: Poetry | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

The Aztecs may not, after all, have been brutal

Though they believed the sun wouldn't rise

Unless the shrines of the sun god reeked with the odor

Of human blood. Maybe their notion of debt

Was stricter than ours. What could they pay the sun

For the priceless gift of corn but men and women

With their lives before them, young and happy?

As for a god who didn't expect repayment,

Who was happy to give as long as our species

Showed it was grateful, more a parent than lender

That notion was no more rational than the other

And far less likely to explain disaster

Though in the long run it ...

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