Edit 1: Relics

[alonso ramoran]

Relics

When the Seven Sisters wept, their frozen tears
scorched upon breaking the skull of man
in fiery neon amnesia.

He joined his blackened shards to sticks, then
arranged the other pieces into circles while tilting
his shattered head skyward,
replenishing his bone and sculpting memories
he later doubted but could not control.

Cronus usurps Uranus and blue lights intermittently
began to dimly flash within man's mended head
as his shouts echoed across water, blood, space, and soil.

But with yesterday's unseen final fragments
that flickered blue, he powered a spacecraft and bases
harvesting the energy of stars, seeking echoes
until Atlas was condemned.

Original: Retellings

When the Seven Sisters wept, their frozen tears
scorched upon breaking the skull of man
in fiery neon amnesia.

He joined his blackened shards to sticks and then
arranged the other pieces into circles while tilting
his shattered head skyward,
replenishing his bone and sculpting memories
he later doubted but could not control.

Cronus usurps Uranus and blue lights intermittently
began to dimly flash within man's mended head
as water, blood, space, and soil echoed all his shouts.

But yesterday's unseen final fragments flickered blue;
with them, a flying vehicle and bases,
harvesting the energy of stars, were powered
until Atlas was condemned.