I am an Alkonost, my voice moves you in a trance. Your mind becomes a clouded sky when you hear my voice singing through your confidence.
I can see the state of your soul as I look into your eyes, watching you bow to the sun while dreaming of my song, of love pursued by sighs.
You see a lovely woman with lips pressed against each second lying before you, not my feathers completing a circle emptying into all you view.
My voice scratches at the window of your day and watches you fall into my existence. I sing into your fantasies always in motion with no resistance.
You sail the high seas, upon whose waves you should never turn your back. I am the mother who leaves her young there, you best be careful when they hatch.
I am an Alkonost, my song moves you to remember nothing but me. Tonight, my young call to be born, oh sailor, do not sail upon these troubled seas.
The Alkonost is, according to Russian folklore, a creature with the body of a bird but the head of a beautiful woman. It makes sounds that are amazingly beautiful, and those who hear these sounds forget everything they know and want nothing more ever again,[1] rather like the sirens of Greek myth. The alkonost lays her eggs on a beach and then rolls them into the sea. When the alkonost's eggs hatch, a thunderstorm sets in and the sea becomes so rough that it is untravelable. The name of the alkonost came from a Greek demigoddess whose name was Alcyone. In Greek mythology, Alcyone was transformed by the gods into a kingfisher.[2]