Sunday, March 20, 2022

I am Orpheus

 

Apollo taught me to play the lyre

Instilled in me his celestial fire

My music had charmed the gods and men

When Eurydice fell in the vipers den

My love gone into the underworld alone

Her loss forever I will mourn

No solace to warm my broken heart

No music or joys their blessings impart

I journey to her, defying fate

With the gods of death I have a date

Though Hades mournful let’s me go

I chose to stay and nurse my woe

Those beats were the last my heart endured

With my last gasps my soul was cured

No miracle can restore a beat to a quivering heart

Now I must this world depart

Embrace my loss and join the dead

With a laurel wreath on my head

Apollo was kind, Hades too

I would be dead if not for you

Your love wrenched me from my despair

It was a miracle not a trivial affair

You lamented and cried awhile

When my eyes closed your smile

Was the last I saw, the Sun

The stars and the moon are now just one

My love, we will meet again

Forgive the sorrow and unbearable pain

I did not mean to cause you harm

I wanted to live, hold you in my arm

Alas, it’s time to say goodbye

This heart cannot mend, it must die

Maxwell O’REILLY

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