The Food Of the Gods

The food of the gods
is not normally seen
to be the product
of the cacao bean.

A Toltec myth said
that the serpent god,
Quetzalcoatl planted
the first cocoa pod.

Chocolate was thought
by the Aztec and Mayas
to be an aphrodisiac,
but I discern bias.

The legend Montezuma
drank, so we are told,
chocolate from a goblet
made of pure gold

before he consorted
with a young concubine,
knowing that afterward
she'd be on cloud nine.

The Greeks differed
in their interpretation
of what constituted
a divine alimentation.

It was manna or ambroaia
and conferred immortality.,
they say, but I look at both
beliefs with impartiality.

© Luigi Pagano 2021