Ode to Sappho

I observe Beauty from afar

Her glowing skin
Her dark eyes
Her parted lips-

An insatiable
Delicious misery
Seeps into my blood-

Her lilting voice
Draws me near
Until Her divine, saccharine scent
Constricts my lungs, and-

I gasp-

Sealing my fate as
Her Elysian gaze meets mine-

My heart shrieks
My eyes go dark
And I
Succumb
To death



Credits
Writer(s): Stephanie Dressler
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