I wrote,, a post about how all the "rip to Orpheus but I'm different" posts are valid but have we considered that they're valid because Jon isn't Orpheus he's Eurydice, but Tumblr ate it so I wrote a real weird angry monster boyfriend poem instead
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They call me Orpheus, say I will not return
say you can't tame the devil with a song.
They call him Eurydice, say he's gone for good,
say love is not enough to turn him home.
And Orpheus is beautiful, and Orpheus is Love,
and Orpheus ran in without a plan
with a tune so sweet he nearly changed the tides-
but Orpheus' mistake was his blinded eyes
And me? Oh, I live to understand.
I am not Orpheus, I am Eurydice,
I will pull the my fool lover
from the Underworld where he
has fallen in line with the stillness
of ten thousand un-beating hearts
remind him of first love's music and
sonnets in the dark of a doorway
unknown to all but us.
Hades thinks he can claim him Persephone,
Hades thinks six months is enough to
blind him with the fog of the Lethe
but I am Eyes and Tongue and Knowing and
Hades is only lonely and
Hades thinks wrong.
I know Orpheus better, I know the way
he moves words through his teeth like
a siren's song, he can tame the seas
and where he stumbles I will hold
the melody.
I am not Orpheus, I am Eurydice,
and Orpheus is beautiful, and Orpheus is Love,
and Orpheus is the songbird that woke Death
with a tune so sweet a monster trailed behind-
but Orpheus' downfall was his doubting eyes
And me? Oh, I walk these tunnels blind.
