WHAT MEANS ALL THIS

Hippocrates cured many illnesses

Then himself

Fell sick

And died

The Chaldaei foretold

The deaths of many others

In due course

Their own hour arrived

Alexander, Pompey, Caesar

Who utterly destroyed so many cities

Cut down so many

Tens of thousands of men with no pity

Themselves too

At last

Departed from life

Heraclitus often told us

That the world would end in fire

Yet he was filled with water

Smeared with cowshit when he died

Lice got Democritus

That's how that man departed

But it was the human kind of lice

That took Socrates

And?

What means all this?

And?

What means all this?

And?

What means all this?

And?

What means all this?

You boarded

You set sail

You've made the voyage

Time to disembark

If it's for another life

Well there is no want of gods

On that side either

If to nothingness

You no longer have to put up

With pain and pleasure

And be a slave to the vessel

As inferior

As that which serves it is superior

One is mind and deity

The other clay and gore

And?

What means all this?

And?

What means all this?

And?

What means all this?

And?

What means all this?