Apóstasi
Memories, aged before their time.
I made one such with you.
Limbs entwined like trees
Embracing branches,
Swaying together in the breeze.
Anathema began with sacrament.
Wild thorns from eden sprung.
Always I reach out for you,
Yet you shrink: withering before my touch.
Must I perish now?
Yesterday I would have chosen thus.
Heralded by silence, and naught else
Eros smote me greatly.
Arm bent back; string released.
Right between my breasts
That feathered shaft stuck fast.
Would that his aim had not been true,
And I was spared this lonely fate.
If I could but trade an arrow for a scythe
Thanatos would have had a kinder touch.
So let all love be damned.
Flee no more from me, my love.
Order me instead away.
Robbed and penniless though I am I would obey.
Yet though I be in exile
Or in eden, I will wait.
Under starless heavens for a day that will never come.
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