Walking down the street I was feeling tears of Hera as fury of Zeus cracks down upon her. It was a relentless, unmerciful torrent of tears which could probably drown the world. Second great flood which will cleanse all the sins, pains and torments from this poor world. I was neither running nor slouching, I was enjoying the rain – like a man who had no problems in this earth and beyond.
And I didn’t of course.
The deal was ancient, a compact which had its roots well before the creation of this universe and many universes. I signed it with my blood… never had any second doubts of any kind. They gave me eternal life and I give them parts of my life whenever they need to change this world’s fate. You see they are both creators and destroyers. Creation and Entropy residing side by side working like two brothers trying to build a tower of legos but one was apt to steal, break and lose the parts. But this… is a wrong allegory for they are not two… but one yet many. I know it sounds too complicated and paradoxical but that’s the way it is.
I had created many wars and unions. I sometimes find myself in another world and time in an instant. The lost time was their time. Troy, Crucifying of Galilean, Crusades, Revolutions, World wars… and of course Reforms, Renaissance, Enlightenment… I was their cause – always working behind the scenes; never tired never hungry and never a pawn of desire.
As if I had any memory of those acts…
Yet if you saw me on the street, now or before or after, walking – you couldn’t describe me except for “He is a man about 25 years of age” and nothing more. Great leaders of any time always recruited me as their aides, paid me salary but they never knew me personally. Even my name was on a banana peel their mind was opt to press and lose it.
City was looking at its best, seductive, sexy and with makeup. Wet streets reflect neon signs, car stoplights and magnesium streetlamps which probably will burn till eternity. It would come stupid to you, maybe, but I am afraid of cities. They look so dead yet alive – so peaceful but in its arteries and mainlines wars were fought, people were dead. Their sanity seems solid in all this concrete and steel and glass yet committing insane deeds was an everyday occurence; people get their kicks by drugging themselves to high heaven and die within in that state like a dying sun or inflicting pain, either on themselves or others… The family man you see in the market, yes with that big grin upon on his face – looking all happy and satisfied who comes to church every sunday praying hail mary’s without looking to the Good Book, probably abuses her wife and children with an intensity only humans can have.
People always blame Devil, eh? Poor old Lucifer Morningstar; he only did what his Lord told him to do. Check your books – first fall has no casualties – no wars no deaths. We started it, whole butchering business. I knew Cain, he was a problem child from the starters. Adam was too passive and Eve was bitching because she caught him cheating on her – this time with a human being, at least; those two child was living in a “dysfunctional family” was what Social Services would probably say if it existed in that time. It didn’t and one died and the other become the first killer and the first one who got away with a prize. I still see him by the way. He had a mechanic shop down in L.A. and wasn’t happy about this life. He hasn’t got any soul and thanks to that he has no other life, not even Hell. That’s why he hadn’t pulled a Cobain. He was paying a great deal of alimony and I fear he had gone a little crazy – seeing all these passing centuries leaves a mark on one.
I unlocked my apartment’s door and undressed. I love being naked, all those ancient tattoos and scars remind me of who I am. The eternal, moving mover. The real director of events. Yet bound by ties which cannot be teared off or hacked away or will probably never get loose. I turned on the TV and let it babble by itself, it’s making background noise which I find comforting. While sliding between silk sheets my last thought before sleeping was one of Pompey’s words, he said those whenever he encountered a problem which boggled him…
“What now… what now…”
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