Uprising

The second poem in the poetry collection From the Sea

Ouranus looked down up Gaia,
As he often did,
His eyes bearing down on her
Yet she finds the weight lifted by her children.

A darkness approaches, the clouds condense
As the anger builds in him and
Swirls with uncharted wrath,
Reprisal against the children he bore.

Snatching, Snarling, Storming
Tossed into the deep bowels of Tartarus
The woe filled Titans
Are condemned to the shadows.

Pleading, imploring, emphatic
To save and be saved, she
Hatches a plan that falls on
Ears deafened by a father’s rage.

Yet from the pit rises the boldest of warriors
To take his mothers sickle,
To end his father’s war,  
Cronus: God of the Golden Age.

And when his father wishes to lay with her
He strikes, rage over-taking his soul,
His father’s manhood falls
into a sea of dark and cold.