The only Greek sin

My lover is the man in the iron cage
Soft tendrils of a flower
That his father the nurturer
His father the batterer
Grew implacably out of rage
In him for ever to smother
My lover is the man who embraces himself
Best and only

I provided water
I provided shelter
And I was the mirror
I thought the best way for you to love me
Was to be included in you

I may die of you
Your irises are a milky white
I’d never noticed before

Seven years cursed at a time
Am I to bring the Gods’ wrath on you?
The pitiful echo of my watch
Ever renewed, struck by beauty
When unrequited love was
The only Greek sin
And this reflection in you

Echo drowned in the river
The day Narcissus ran away
Stuttering nymph, Greek Ophelia
She’d lost her mother to the river
She’d lost her lover to a flower
The sound is becoming to water


Pronouns hesitated between us
He saw only himself in my eyes
His soul reflected only in shards of glass

The worst of all is that he thinks he’s normal
When I see the monster
The terrifyingly deadly heartbreaking monster

But I still love him
And I still see his beauty
‘Tis a deadly oxymoron
The very crux of my fascination
I can’t
He is devoid of feelings, you see


Child of Bohemia, roaming all the paths
I beg you not to trample me anymore
You threw sand in my eyes
Gipsy feet and master of ties
Then you give me poisonous flowers
The pollens paint scars on my skin
I stray - I stay away from your parallel ways
But you are my Samarkand
One is the music, one the dancer, or the band
I can’t tell us away
I want you always insane clockwork

Rupture me from you now
Give me the grace to do it
All pride is lost
All necks have bent
Yesterday’s and the year before’s
All tears were shed