Past and Future - Elysium meets Everywhen

According to the mythology of the ancients,

the souls of the virtuous after death

would go to Elysii Campi 

 where their happiness would be complete.

 Their pleasures would be innocent and refined.

Bowers evergreen, delightful meadows with pleasant streams.

Where the air was wholesome, serene, and temperate.

Birds continually warbled in the groves.

Everything in Elysium would be just so.

But wouldn’t you know...

Achilles and his cohorts would be there also,

waging war on the wild beasts.

 Trojan chiefs would be placed there too, 

(specifically to manage hoards)

And the Poets! Having continual feasting and revelry.

Gratifying low desires of the debauchee.

If the ancients only knew what they were heading into.

No inkling of the extraterrestrials travelling in the everywhen,

through all dimensions, free falling fuggheads 

too numerous to mention.

Slipping through gateways and portals,

Replicants, Androids, and all manner of space trash,

drawn to earthlings to clone them and relive their past.

All time travellers, knowingly or not, caught in the great paradox.



Note: 

With help from Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary & Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction 



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