Edat Cor
O’ Muse, hear this song from me
Of how these things came to be
For wanting to taste you
They stripped me of my wings
But there was neither snake nor fruit
Only my “fall from grace into sinful things”
Stumps bloodied and raw
I lay with the resignation of my contumacy
In exile, I warred within until I saw
glow from halo blinding me
An angel on earth, you must have strayed from heavenly halls
Now, how does the saying go?
I sat outside your garden walls
With hungry eyes and tarnish-deemed soul
Clotho, Atropos! Come quickly and look!
See how our boy has his heart took
He no longer has his wings
So what is there for gods to think?
“Sweet sparrow,” I purred from gate post
“Could I be so honored to hear your song?”
You laughed like falling stars and showed
me what I already knew all along
Honey, I’d let you be the snake
If it meant to be crushed within glittering scales
The breath from my lungs you can take
Don’t let fluttering from heart prevail
You walked me through your Eden
Named every flora and fauna, but my eyes
Took delight in slender frame eaten
Curve of lips and stretch of muscles my demise
Lounging in grass ‘neath shady tree
eyes of gold with divine light glow
Under dark eyelashes, you tease me
As lips part, hunger is all I know
So I take your skin between my teeth
Body left tender behind my fingers’ wake
I carve away the barricade to ivory corset beneath
To dine on your heart and cure this hunger’s ache
Your hands knead my ribs and spine
And hold fast to wing stumps left as testament and trial
“They made your love into a crime,
All I see and feel is beauty, nothing here is vile”
Lachesis, your Icarus has fallen
But, Sisters, notice how the sea isn’t sullen
He hasn’t reached for his wings, wax and strings of a toy
For he’s found locus amoenus with this boy
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