Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne by  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I would abdicate my throne

for one day of forgetfulness.

My spirit grieves the words

I have had to form to catalog

man’s errors when I was birthed

to create language for beauty.

While I can’t forget they refuse

to remember the sky was once blue,

the water was fresh, and hunger

didn’t create zombie’s fighting for bread.

My immortality is weighted with stones

wrapped around my vocal chords.

I have rattled heaven with my shouts

at humanity to stop killing the very

place that gives them life, but they won’t abate.

Watching death imprint its face on my memory

is an eternal curse I can’t escape;

nor can I run from the vocabulary

I must create to describe it.

©Susie Clevenger 2013

  

Mnemosyne was the Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words.

Kerry's Wednesday Challenge ~ Gods In Nature