Alexander VI Contemplates the Opposite

A Poem by
   Ward Kelley
   1997

Before God, there was a yearning for consequence,
an ache in the void already swirling with the souls of angels,
ephemeral skeletons waiting to be thought into substance,
wisps of nothing, whispered kisses, on a carousel of desire
pining for dreams of sex.


Prior to divinity, there was a lurch, a celestial slouch
towards concepts of beings clever enough
to invent their own gods, for even back then it was clear
the conscious must create the matter of itself,
and all of us, in the end, are aspirations of the void.


Before God, there was you, pure you, bodiless,
and somewhere behind the nothing there was me,
chasing you, pursuing the concepts of ourselves
in the babykind of forever, thinking what we truly need
to achieve the proper copulations
is the kickstart of omnipotence.

© 1998 - Ward Kelley

Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503) was elected pope Alexander VI in the conclave of 1492. Overall his reign was a disaster for the Church, and his corruption lessened the Church’s ability to resist the Protestant reformation. However Alexander did achieve certain accomplishments such as sending the first missionaries to the Americas, recovering the territories of the Papal States, and reforming the papal finances. Prior to becoming pope, he fathered four children by a Roman noblewoman; his children became Alexander’s dominant passion in his life, and two of them achieved their own notoriety: Cesare Borgia, the model for Machiavelli’s "The Prince," and Lucrezia Borgia who was reported to have been involved in an incestuous relationship with her father and two brothers.

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