03.18.08
If I wrote one thing
that made you gasp
and say "how true"
I would be welcomed
in the heavens
as conversation,
but making you gasp is
a much surer way
to heaven than writing.
Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC) is the Babylonian king who sacked Jerusalem and built the Hanging Gardens. Nebuchadnezzar did not write these poems.