Sunday 15 October 2017

the making of the beast:



In the darkness he finds himself
through no design
rather because of difference
and isn't that the way of the world
what is not the same
must be destroyed, hidden or shamed;

so Asterion through no misdeed
only the luck of that other coin's side
finds himself the centre of the maze,
watches in horror and his horns grow,
his reputation too, and the blood
also, because he was other than
as all should be
and being the son of a King or God
saves him not
from the curse of deviation.

How the words spreads then,
like ships leaving the port,
break the waves with sails full
to carry the word to all the distant ports,
to the bars and homes and even,
so it seems, into the bedrooms, 
to set a pulse within the hearts and thighs
of those who crave

the very things they are told to despise.

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