henotheism

and so he was
shining in the sun
the brightest
in a pantheon
of bright young things
such was his power
a young Zeus
and she
high school Semele
worshipped him
above all
as she scribbled in her notebook
and sighed behind her braces
and glasses and fears
her henotheism myopic
but unshakable
doomed to be
immolated by doubt
burnt and broken
so it ever was