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Isolation binds

A silent scream for more

Sorrow’s ocean tides

Will bring my boat ashore

By poseidon’s hand

Was I defiled

By both gods and men

Am I reviled

O, Athena

Please forgive me

O, Athena

I only sought your counsel

No space more sacred than one’s only body

No wound more deadly than the loss of self

No violation worse than to be taken

No blame should fall upon my weary head

I never asked for divinity

I only wished to exist

The coveting of beauty

So fragile in this state

A rupture on olympus

Such jealousy and hate

My hair has turned to coiled serpents

My eyes have power unrestrained

I am the monster that you’ve made me

A servant only to my pain

The seed within my womb

Your temple is my tomb

I lie in wait for righteous men

By death they are consumed

My curs’d body does betray me

I vow to die by my own hand

The moonlight bitter in its judgement

“Medusa, what do you demand?”

“I seek to consummate my suffering

The punishment that left me damned
I seek an audience with Atropos

To sever every withered thread”

My lips parted in silent prayer

The gods hear me but do not care

A sword glistens, a shield shines

My own visage burns my eyes

My blood pools among the stones

He steps forward and takes hold

A bleak vision of my fate

I now serve those who i hate

O, Athena

I only sought your counsel

Why did you betray me so?

Why did you leave me alone?

Will my punishment

Never end?

Will my suffering

Never end?

Will my servitude

Ever cease?

Will your clutching hand

Ever release?