@femmefatalenet | event thirteen | one year celebration | war
The Muses | goddesses and embodiments of science, literature, and the arts, source of orally related knowledge of poetic lyrics and myths.
“Sing O Goddess,
but not of the rage of Achilles,
Nor of Alexander’s fury.
Do not sing,
O Goddess,
of the demise of Icarus.
You have sung too often
about the ire of men.
Sing O Goddess,
of how we toppled kingdoms
with our lips.
Sing of how we
singlehandedly
ended the world
by whispering
in a weak man’s ear.
Sing of how
our power
does not lie
in cowardly murder
but in the power of out heartsblood.
O Goddess,
Sing of Medusa instead,
of her cold,
unforgiving eyes.
Sing of Helen too,
and her need
to see the world burn.
Sing for brave Psyche,
who won immortality
and also a man.
Sing of all of us,
and how in the end
we didn’t need to bloody our hands
to rip the world to shreds.”
- a.h.
