#tsoa poem

[shady-scripter]

Been a while! Dealing with a really bad case of writer’s block but here’s a poem for your starvation :)

Achilles’s Rage

@trippygalaxy :)

[sunsmemories]

i have imagined a thousand lives that i would live when he is gone,

but none of them bore enough happiness

to make his death worth everything the prophecies spoke of.

ah, i thought,

there would be nothing left for me in this world.

i turn to my side and watch him sleep.

my love, i will follow you in death.

(“As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.” - pg 188)

[putmyheartonyoursleeve]

page 29

farewells chorused;

do you understand?

but he stood.

almost-screams scrape my throat through the

night -

I had loved figs once -

sweetness filled my mouth and skin,

warm and uncalloused under my fingertips

burned harsher than the stars which turn -

you are here because you killed a boy -

I thought he may look at me again

but his shoulder blades were sharp under his warmth.

without my father behind I pursue -

you may still make a good man -

for the golden love which radiates

the bareness would grow familiar,

I should have expected it.