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Sweet moon

I never learn, I never learn

Keep mourning your ashes in the golden urn

You were the dawning sun opened wide

A purity I slaughtered for the god inside

 

I never fade, vague as fog, I never fade

Into the scarlet waters, I wade

Dusk weeps and deserted I wait

Wait, I wait, O timeless Patroclus, I wait

 

A thousand ships, all united, set sail

To free their heavenly queen and her veil

A thousand ships I could’ve let burn

Into the wretched battle had you not run

 

Rambles, rambles on this silent sea

Your extinguished heart will hear not a plea

You took all the humans in me along

This bleak divinity, worth not a single song

 

Never not do I hope, never not

I hope, I hope, in this despaired hope I rot

You lurk a painful past in my unseeing gaze

As rows upon rows of men I raze

 

In the halls of living, I search for your name

Your love-licked body I surrendered to my flame

I hear your starlit lips yell at me to stay

Achilles, Achilles, live, you ****** sun, they say

 

All my charismatic promises I forget

This wish, sweet moon, you shall not get

I tear then my heart in search of you

A river red as doom, and a stillness blue

 

I am here, Patroclus, now spare me this lone

My frenzied ghost screams soundless on

Our ashes kiss and kiss in the golden urn

I never learn, alas, I never learn

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Written by
Ayesha
21 / F / Pakistan
Published
Jul 9, 2021
Lines·Words
32·251
Notes

Props to Madeline Miller for making me like the character of Achilles...that's like making a lizard fly believe me.

10/07/2021

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#achilles#patroclus#childhood#fuckingtiredofmyself
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