Goddess of Love
I worshiped
the poetry of her
Her voice sounded
like a soft prayer
Able to convert
an atheist to a priest
She’s Aphrodite
and I’m a Sapphist
Who wrote poems
like unheard pleas
from a tormented soul—
sentenced with death
soon to be beheaded
I invoked thee,
my Aphrodite
I’ll be thy Sappho
if you’d answer to
my pleas poems
And in them,
I’d implore you
to abate this intolerable agony, and
allay me in this deathlike solitude
with thy godly presence
I swear on love letters
and you
for it’s the last poem
I write about you