Kubes The House of Dust I have arrived, without the benefaction I set out to find. Instead, I bring starved cheeks and a face so drawn. I bring an older man, no longer lingering on the gods within, knowing divinity has suppressed one thing from us and always will. We will eventually live in a house where we will sit in darkness, dust will be our food, clay our meat. The kings of the earth will put their crowns away forever those who stood in place of the gods like Anu and Enlil will be servants that fetch baked meat in the house of dust. Enkidu, I shall see you there. No longer warriors, no longer men, we too shall crawl through the dirt, in dirt but together. Listen to Siduri, she brews great wisdom, drink it like wine; "Live, love, eat and dance," for life and death are allotted, but the day of death is not disclosed. Listen to Utnapishtim, who possesses what I searched for, yet can still be found with cheeks that are starved and a face that is also drawn: "Only the nymph of the Dragonfly who sheds her larva sees the sun in his glory," for life and death are allotted, but the day of death is not disclosed. I have arrived, without the benefaction I set out to find. All I bring are the days that were before the great flood. The days when the clamor of man was so intolerable that sleep was not possible for the gods. So the tempest, so great it scared the gods, came and took almost all. And Enlil, so wroth at his act that he understood to lay upon the sinner his sin, his sin alone. All I bring you, Uruk, is the before. All I bring is what we were, where we came. All I bring is Uruk. The strong wall built by the seven wise men will fall, still, we shall have the before. Enkidu, we shall meet, intertwined among dust, as servants, without shields, without swords. In the dark house of dust we shall grin at eternal pain, for you too will hear the story of the before, For it is all we shall have, for it is all we shall be. Life and death are allotted, and when the day of death is to me disclosed I shall expect you to open the doors Enkidu, the doors to the house of dust.