Greek Tragedy

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A letter to Antigone of Thebes

Dear, Antigone

A martyr you've become

Taken out by a blade of your own pride

Forged by your beliefs and ideals

Oh, Antigone

I'm standing right where you were

Do I bury my brother

Or do I let myself live on

I don't want to be a teenage tragedy

But that seems to be

The only place that my life will lead

But, Antigone

I want to stand up

For what i'd die for

I just don't want to die

And dead, kill one more

I'll die a martyr

Or join a pile of bodies

How Antigone

Do I be like you

But not become you

My fear separates us

It seems to guide me sometimes

Now, Antigone

I'll die someday but not tonight

I've got so much left to do

That I want to do

That I need to do

So I won't leave tonight

I want to start a revolution

Because we already have our revelations

I just want to live to see it really start

Goodbye, Antigone

We seem to be dreaming

Reaching for the stars

But it seems we are

Dreaming in the dark

For the most part

Maybe one day our beliefs

Might do some good for someone else

And maybe one day it won't start

With bloodshed but something else

Sincerely, A girl with hope for a better future 


Sunshine or Shadows

Oh Persephone,

Why did you run?

Oh, tell me, please,

Why did you leave?

Was life in the sun

And among the flowers

Really that bad?

Or is that the darkness

Is far more welcoming?

Please tell me, Persephone,

To which should i run?

Is the darkness worth

Leaving the sun and flowers?

Can I make my own garden

Amongst the shadows?

Is the sun going to burn me

Before i can really live?

Oh Persephone,

Please tell me the truth?


Pantheon of People

I couldn't fill a pantheon with people

I have meet and have stayed

But I could fill a pantheon with the people

I have meet and have left

Maybe it would help if I wasn't so mean

But at the very least I'm not manipulative

I tend to be guilty over things I haven't done

But at least it's better than having none

For the things that I have done

A pantheon of people are different

If only there wasn't a pantheon of people

That are so indifferent 

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