Vengeance And The Gray

By lifelong sorrow I was scalped,

Skewered by deceit and hate

Then out of Argos I was expectorated.

Like jetsam upon a sprawling, desolate sea,

I spilled to the gilded crown of a Delphic-rabid king,

And was swindled to murder a lascivious fiend

To murder the depraved Gorgon queen.

Upon black waves I persistently pressed,

Bordering realms where the Cimmerians nest,

Seeking the immortality that was purloined by Aphrodite.

Her dulcet reflection in whispers hymned

Of shimmering scales beneath aquiline wings;

I barred the lust that gorged my mind,

And tore her scabrous neck;

Her ashen blood sprayed the catacomb,

Rearing the Equine form.

And as the snake-locks writhed,

Stheno and Euryale rose

But veiled in shade,

I absconded with the prize.

Vengeance breeds in deception

I was born restrained,

Bound in bronze to eschew prophecy.

Vengeancea dual grave.

Upon return I burst into the hall,

Glanced the fool upon the dais,

And reared the severed head

Enshrined his reign to gray.