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Metamorph


“Metamorph”





The Invocation of Fire cast,
She imprinted her mark, a
Metamorph holding keys

The Siren,
bare feet, walks
towards 

the blue-green mirror Sea

Out of the cave
from the Underworld
following he

A rope around her waist
One leg in Heaven
The other in Hades

Eurydice;

This time he doesn’t 
look back, 
jute unravels,

She’s free


(LadyLabyrinth/2020)







“Contaminated” / Banks
https://youtu.be/DwZMHkYTvhY



“Half State" / BRMC
https://youtu.be/eejX7kX-mIw







“what was it that crossed my face
with the light from yours
and your glance?
what was it you saw in my face?
the light of your own face,
the fire of your own presence?”






“An empathic metamorph is a creature 
perceived to be the "perfect mate"
by changing its persona and behaviour 
to meet another being's emotional 
requirements and sexual desires. 
It achieves this using a subtle form 
of telepathy which is more akin to empathy.”










1. Eurydice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice 

2. Orpheus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus 

3. Minor god, Aristaeus
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aristaeus

4. "Orpheus and Eurydice on the Banks of the Styx"
Artist: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908)

5. "Eurydice" by H.D.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51869/eurydice-56d22fe6d049d

6. "Nothing Else" / Julia and Angus Stone, Lyrics
https://genius.com/Angus-and-julia-stone-nothing-else-lyrics

7. "Half State" / BRMC
https://youtu.be/eejX7kX-mIw

Lyrics: "Half State" / BRMC
https://genius.com/Black-rebel-motorcycle-club-half-state-lyrics

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Justin Bordner

Date: 2/8/2020 7:07:00 PM

Fresh love, unclouded by doubt, uncorrupted by conditions...a love that Death cannot cut...a very pretty song Poetess. Your use of mythology and the Metamorph is brilliantly done...J.A.B.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/9/2020 1:58:00 AM

Thanks Justin. I've been told "unconditional" love doesn't exist. I beg to differ, unconditional love is attainable, through compromise and empathy with the people who are meant to be in your life, by your side in whatever capacity and whatever type of relationship, or circumstance - it could be the worst circumstance you could think of occurring in your life. Of course, Love is required, and some will say, there's the spanner in the works, conditions arise. A two edged sword. Even, in the worst conditions, if Love is there, a thing called Forgiveness will enter at some point. If a person is capable of finding forgiveness within themselves to the other, whether to the lesser or greater of occurrences in ones life, then Love is "unconditional". "Unconditional" Love can save lives. I kind of like the concept of Orpheus successfully making it out of Hades with Eurydice, and therefore her full freedom, not half-state. And of course, Orpheus, avoids the fate destined in his story.