Ode To Nemesis

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Envy

is a silly thing

 

A weight on one’s back

stale breeze on one’s face

 

I hold you by Your waist

in my gental hands

look into Your white eyes

 

to be like You,

naive

Free

 

Such a silly thing

to hate

every essence

of my vile being

 

to look at You

an idol of virtue

and wish to Rip

to Tear

 

To whom do I owe this retribution?

 

not You

You who have done

no wrong

 

Not like me.

for I am the mortal Invidia.

 

Perhaps it is Your light

Your purity

each finger and curve

so wantly crafted

a true Persephone,

to my Hepaestus

 

It is my execution day.

 

Strung by my neck

feet dangling over a chasm

I look over my shoulder

towards Your divinity

 

Do You sense it?

my Hubris?

my Calm?

 

Fear not,

I am the doe

and it is You who weilds the knife

 

I am afraid

of You

of everything

 

They have tied my body to a pole

They chant for my demise

are You surprised?

 

I detest myself

though You may try to hate me more

each strand of greasy hair

every acid mole

who are You to say I have control?

 

What I envy

is not Your beauty

but that You are able

to want

to walk

free infront of heckling eyes

and be Unexceptional

 

to us monsters of the bush

in the lurking shadows of Your sight

such an act

is Incomprehensible

 

I hang.

 

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