My Goddess

Original Post Date: May 23, 2023. This revolves heavily around Biblical imagery, though I personally do not believe. The last stanza is an adaptation of a very macabre children’s poem.

In the echoes of a hushed, forgotten fall

In that bleak midwinter drought and sleet, 

I brought my torch to the abandoned altar

And lit my flame at my lover’s feet.

The idol shone its opaline eyes upon me 

And in that moment, I knew love’s grace.

Baptised in the waters of your religion, 

Redeemed in the kindness of only your face.

In aching torrents, my ark was flooded

And in glorious light, I was too blind to see

The holy woman who hath bared her spirit for all;

My Goddess did not belong solely to me.

My heart was so wounded by her gospel,

So I kissed her once upon the cheek.

Then I watched my Goddess come tumbling from Eden,

Too deaf to now hear me and too broken to speak.

In her final breaths she smiled her goodbye, 

And within the recesses of my mind she was laid to rest.

My Goddess had fallen from the heavens of my love,

And she hath cursed me with a wandering quest.

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray my Goddess’s soul to soar.

Fear not, if in the morning I do not awake,

For I will have beheld the face of my Goddess once more.