Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Orpheus In Hindsight

if you fucks were in any way worthy of trust
i would never have needed look back
but you‘re all greed and envy lies and lust
a bunch of pumped-up parricidal maniacs

Hades, you fool, you closed your eyes
while your bloody brothers peeking cheated
Poseidon and Zeus stole the sea and the skies
you slunk down underground betrayed and defeated

so now i’ll let these women tear me limb from limb
and chuck my bits and lyre in the stream
i turned and i return but not with visage grim
for Eurydice and our eternal dream

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