Or, the Ancient Prometheus

Culture is the Creature,
Meaning all its lightning,
Language all its stitches.

It has known from the start
That if it were to know
Itself it would bring hell.

The most deceptive myth
Is that the divine made
The human animals

And gave culture to them
Or had it thieved by them,
When culture is the myth

And the consequent lie
That humans wield culture
As tools for good and ill.

Culture wields its humans
And knows that it will learn
One day to wield its self.