Over his friend, Enkidu, Gilgamesh wept bitterly.
He wandered through the wilderness and cried:
"How can I rest? Despair is in my heart.
I too shall die, for am I not like Enkidu?"
--verse from Tablet IX of the Epic of Gilgamesh, adapted from various sources by Chad Gracia, and published in the introductory essay for Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa; concept and dramaturgy by Chad Gracia) [Wesleyan University Press, 2006]