Christina JS

"Eros"

Bannigh meadhan oidhche
Brenhines nos Arian

I am the one that creeps from behind the darkness
tendrils of indigo tinged
with rose gold as Apollo wakes
from his dreams
and Artemis shoots her last
star-filled arrow and closes
her weary eyes
saying goodnight
to her forbidden love

His lyre waking the birds
and we wave a greeting
as his chariot takes off into the sky
and I sit beneath the shade of a tree

The Hesperides greet me with a smile
and Ladon curls at my feet
as brightness fills the sky
their golden eyes
meet my platinum ones
as the dawn fades away

and I am left to be the Omega again.