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deception
11:03
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Why do I see blessings where the others see a curse?
Tangled from undressing as the dancing gods rehearse
Slumber, Oceanus, at the world’s edge, hard by night
Monstrous apparitions in the garden of delights
When you gaze upon my face
It’s as if you’ve turned to stone
Your features frozen, motionless
By that which you behold
Why do I see demons where divinity has been?
Sanctity unraveled by the ceremony’s din
Slumber does escape me til the dawning of the day
Moonlight does awaken me and beckons me away
When you gaze upon my face
It’s as if you’ve turned to stone
Your features frozen, motionless
By that which you behold
Such violent delights
Visited upon my form
I am but a vessel
I am but an effigy to burn
A drowning fawn
Far from the shore
The river runs
Along the moor
I beg for help
I plead for time
I reach for you
But nought I find
No mask shall hide
Your Janus face
You have decried
My warm embrace
A ruptured lung
A severed vein
The river bends
Its face in shame
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coercion
08:18
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Every word
A tiny prick of pain
So carefully measured
So carefully measured
Subconsciously administered
Disguised as medicine
Disguised as medicine
Your voice etched into stone
As you create my form
Every line from memory
The curve of collarbones
Every kiss
A tiny gift of death
So carefully portioned
So carefully portioned
Apothecary’s bitter tongue
That tastes of medicine
That tastes of medicine
The gold pours down my throat
A hand that slowly chokes
A ribbon tied around your wrist
To mitigate the flow
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submission
15:03
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Isolation binds
A silent scream for more
Sorrow’s ocean tides
Will bring my boat ashore
By poseidon’s hand
Was I defiled
By both gods and men
Am I reviled
O, Athena
Please forgive me
O, Athena
I only sought your counsel
No space more sacred than one’s only body
No wound more deadly than the loss of self
No violation worse than to be taken
No blame should fall upon my weary head
I never asked for divinity
I only wished to exist
The coveting of beauty
So fragile in this state
A rupture on olympus
Such jealousy and hate
My hair has turned to coiled serpents
My eyes have power unrestrained
I am the monster that you’ve made me
A servant only to my pain
The seed within my womb
Your temple is my tomb
I lie in wait for righteous men
By death they are consumed
My curs’d body does betray me
I vow to die by my own hand
The moonlight bitter in its judgement
“Medusa, what do you demand?”
“I seek to consummate my suffering
The punishment that left me damned
I seek an audience with Atropos
To sever every withered thread”
My lips parted in silent prayer
The gods hear me but do not care
A sword glistens, a shield shines
My own visage burns my eyes
My blood pools among the stones
He steps forward and takes hold
A bleak vision of my fate
I now serve those who i hate
O, Athena
I only sought your counsel
Why did you betray me so?
Why did you leave me alone?
Will my punishment
Never end?
Will my suffering
Never end?
Will my servitude
Ever cease?
Will your clutching hand
Ever release?
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revulsion
17:41
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A labyrinthine passage
Within my chest
A blood red thread
That leads to hell
An ache so deep
I cannot rest
The waves within
Begin to swell
At sorrow’s breast
She nourished me
Disgust too great
To love me true
I am revulsion
In human form
I am the gorgon
For whom none shall mourn
And sorrow’s tide
Will fill the caves
I drown in fear
Of loving you
I want to be ethereal
And unknown
A mysterious nebula
In space
Expanding like a web
Of iridescent madness
I’ve found a way to escape
Perseus never shall know
Athena averted her eyes
Mortality graces my soul
The woods will hide my body
And consecrate my corpse
As I lay down to take my final breaths
A wolf catches the scent of my blood
She approaches tenderly
I’ve found a way to escape
Perseus never shall know
Athena averted her eyes
Mortality graces my soul
A lover coming to devour me
She drinks of me and gains
What little strength i have left to give
As I drift away
Drift away
She carries me
Down into the earth
Down into the earth
Carried to the sea
Shattered like the ring
With which you shackled me
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Everson Poe Chicago, Illinois
Everson Poe is Mae Shults: a trans, queer, multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. Often in collaboration with various
vocalists, she balances elements from many diverse genres while maintaining the goal of merging beauty with loudness. She has been releasing music as Everson Poe for over a decade.
Logo by Sludgework.
Avatar by Unknown Relic.
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