What do you see little Asterion?
Do you wonder why you hear your father bellow?
Why they call him the Mad Bull of Crete?
Your name means 'Ruler of the Stars'.
But have even seen the nightsky?
Or the sun?
Your grandfather is Helios
he gave your mother her golden hair.
Does your mind make the connections?
So you imagine the sun to be golden?
And if your mother is your daylight and sun
Is your sister the night sky?
Her bright gray eyes like the stars,
her pale round face like the moon.
Hair dark like a crow, which surely you've seen
When your mother had the priests spill their
intestines so she can see your great future.
This is all of course speculation.
You have only known the labyrinth,
so full of the screams of strangers.
Strangers who unlike your sister and mother
run from you.
Do wonder if they are they mad like your father?
The priests promised your mother you would never be forgotten.
Why then is there this stranger with your sister's golden thread?
Did you wonder if he is her beautiful god?
And his sword plunged into your throat did you think
this is what your sister meant when she spoke of your escape?
What do you see little Asterion?