An insightful poem it is lovely  

This is one of my favourites; from the tales of Gilgamesh searching the desert for the Plant of Life-

The plant which glows as bright as heaven
On a clear and star-filled desert night
Its brightness confounded to eyes of man
Is grasped in jaws of that black snake
Held fathoms neath the ocean of despair
Held in bitter waters known but to one
That man half-god, wild eyed with
Loneliness
That man half-god who longs for
Soothing death.