Narcissus And Echo

Twas that time of day, rife to diurnals,

With black skies dispersing for bright tawny,

When a voiceless maiden wandering woods,

Aimlessly walking at early morning,

Spotted during her mindless wandering,

Through the labyrinth of vibrant flora,

A sight that clenched at her heart, allure,

Desirousness swelling in her aura,

But who was the lady walking the forests of Gaia purposeless and as pointless as an infant hawk, attempting the glide alike their kin, with a broken wing. Voiceless why? Devoiced by whom?

A fair nymph, once joyous, but hexed by she,

Mother of Ares and wedded to Zeus,

She whom accursed her as a punishment,

Ridding her of a voice to plead for truce,

Echo, a daughter of old Uranus,

And such a beauteous visage she held,

Punished for affiliating with Zeus,

In hiding an affair, by Hera quelled,

Unjustly forced to aid the concealment,

Of yet another of Zeus' transgressions,

Another vile act of unfaithfulness,

One Echo hid from Heras discretion,

And so, despite not being the accomplice,

Of whom with, Zeus defiled matrimony,

Echo vouchsafed a dismal consequence,

Robbed of speech, by Heras acrimony,

Cursed by Hera and her grudgeful disdain,

Stripped of her independent expression,

Condemned only to repeat and relay,

The words and phrases another has mentioned.

An echo, a ripple of words bespoken,

The liminal wall before speech dissolves,

A wall she was fated to embody,

Despite not intending to be involved,

*When Zeus had strayed away from loyalty (as he often does), led by his loins instead of his

 sapience and sense, Echo offended Hera by trying to distract and prevent her suspicious glares

 from drifting over the affair unfolding behind her eyes. In doing so, Hera, given time, realised

 that the nymph had been cozening her, keeping her in conversation, and keeping her gaze

 detoured off Zeus' amorous antics. What was foreign to Echo (at that time) however, was that

 this divagation from loyalty, prompted by sexual desire, was not at all uncommon for Zeus and