Metaphors unravel when followed
Perhaps that is why humanities scholars are derided
For they do little but follow such things
Chasing them without chasing them
Disturbing them at their rest
Until exhaustion takes them
And they die upon the dirt
Their lives are valued
More than the sustenance that can be taken from them
Too often
The figuration of Mother Earth and a Heavenly Father
Makes the rain obscene
And all of us have been doused in such life-making fluids as issue from that joining
The equation of eagle and nation
Any nation that claims an eagle as a symbol of itself
May be apt
Eagles eat carrion as much as they do anything else
The Trojans many take as an emblem
Lost their war
And stupidly
They were warned and heeded not
So that smaller things emerged to ruin the city
Once the larger thing was admitted in
Rainbows only include what we can see
But much more is not seen
And we may have yet to look
The light of knowledge
Surely casts a shadow when it strikes upon the material
And many dwell happily within that umbra
Chins kept up are easily kicked
Knuckles knocking that things be opened bloody
Neither conduces to any end but pain
Neither conduces to comfort
Neither does extending a metaphor
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