There was a god.
In infancy, this god saw,
and created skeletons:
motionless things
wrought of dead materials.
In adolescence, this god thought,
and created beasts:
ignorant things
fueled by living forces.
In maturity, this god knew,
and created men:
capable things
simulacra of the god itself.
In age, this god fell,
and succumbed to its creation:
this god was once a man,
now slain by an infant god.