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[for-calliope]

Petals

Petal by petal,

The flowers in your garden

Open themselves up to the sun

In a way I never could to you

[for-calliope]

Stories

I sit down on fake grass,

Someone lays their head on my lap

And I tell stories

Of old gods and monsters,

Of Zeus, and his many children,

Of the many women he has wronged.

I tell stories

Of Orion,

Of Artemis,

Of a love, immortalised

In the form of stars.

I tell stories

Of Orpheus and his voice,

Of the fear that destined Eurydice to fall

Lost to her love, forever.

I tell stories

Of Achilles

Of his greatest weakness

Not his heel, I say,

It was his heart, his Patroclus.

I tell stories

Of Psyche and Eros,

Of Hades and Persephone,

Of Apollo and Hyacinthus,

I tell stories

Of love and death and tragedy.

I tell stories

That taught me

Grief only exists where love does.