Unwilled, and Other Poems

Enkidu

I am Gilgamesh

King of all men

Leader of all lands

Immortal beyond all immortals

Warrior beyond all warriors

But I would be nothing

Without my trusted friend

My beloved friend Enkidu

This kingdom is nothing

Compared to our love

The gods made him

Out of clay with their hands

And then out of water

Only to be cast out into the wild

Nobody but the animals to raise him

So uncivilized

Only ate food off the ground

While I dined in the finest tables

Wore the finest clothes

In the finest palaces

This man-beast was caught

Sleeping with a harlot

He spent so much time in my world

He couldn't return to his old one

So he stayed in the civilized world

I was told to fight him

And we fought well

I fought that man-beast and trained him

We were so different

Yet we were inseparable

We went on many adventures

Crossed many lands

Crossed many baddies and foes

We were the heroes of a lifetime

We were the new millennia

Was a partnership to beat all partnerships

Then my friend Enkidu got sick

He got very sick

I asked the gods to help him

But it was no use

My friend was gone

I cannot go on without him

I want to live forever

So I can love forever

I am the King

I should have what I want

I sought immortality

Until I realized something

I am immortality

One day, all this will be gone

But my influence, my legacy

Will be intact

It will be here

To inspire and influence

Millions upon millions of people

For it is true

The body may die

But the soul is forever

Just like true love

Love can be squashed

Or delayed

Or burned

Or stabbed

But never destroyed or killed

Death cannot stop love

My beloved Enkidu

You are forever

My Kingdom is forever

And death cannot stop us

Death gets us all

But time never will

For we are all timeless