To Eros
At the end you made yourself a goddess
for me, all fire and light and love.
And then you watched me die
in a shower of impenetrable gold
You didn't know it was the beginning;
you met me when you lost me
I could dance; you tried me,
and loved me, not like a goddess,
but like Eve, human at the beginning.
I took you to a new world, drunk in love,
new sun, new me, new you, it was all gold,
and then we remembered how to die.
Your mum said I couldn't let you die
long ago. How little she knew me
and yet, everything dies that once was gold.
The universe cries at the death of a goddess,
and when you died I wept for love,
not knowing we were still beginning
The earth was dark at the new beginning
but I rejoiced, not knowing I would die,
grasping at the moments of love.
Captivated once more, you held me,
but you are too human for a goddess,
and flesh is burned by molten gold.
The end came again, a new shower of gold
with another cruel beginning,
and you marveled at Agape, a goddess,
but like you, human, so she had to die,
and I waited for the moments until you left me,
and did the final thing, the sacrifice for love.
A god could never tell you of his love
because his hearts would melt like gold,
and so I split myself and gave you part of me,
once again a new life, a beginning.
You looked at him and never saw me die.
as I took my last look at the human goddess.
Eros, you loved me, and my love
made of you a goddess, living gold.
I am always beginning, so you cannot die.