Utilizing Greek Mythology

CUPID AND PSYCHE

Cupid was an emblem of the heart, in Greek mythology. Psyche was the personification of the soul and represented by the form of butterfly wings. Psyche suffered a great deal in her efforts to learn about love and faith. After much suffering, caused by the jealousy of her sisters and her own inability to keep a promise, Cupid and Psyche were married. -Ron Price from H.A. Guerber,Greece and Rome: Myths and Legends, Chancellor Press, London, 1995(1907), pp. 127-137.

Such a happy ending after wandering,

a victim of the heart�s desires and the

slings and arrows of mysterious fortune!

Such beauty, such a heavenly gem, delicate

sweetness, mystery of mysteries, moves and

is still, whose fruit, whose light, a butterfly.

No voice, no lute, no pipe, no incense

can tell of Her divinely ordained and subtle reality,

fairer than the sapphire-regioned galaxies

or bowers of flowers.

This heart�s home of fleeting fancies takes Her

airy lightness far from its vitalizing power, beauteous

hour, resplendent luminaries of the atom or drop.

Your visage appears warn, loveliest vision

in heaven�s unknown hierarchy, enjoying closeness

to thousands of other dancing wings,

but stained now with earthly desires,

the taint of Your memories,

Your waywardness, a remoteness

from Your own wondrous beauty,

its vast and inner mysteries.

Even though You have been preoccupied

with Your patterns which can not fatten

nor appease the hunger, You can but sing

and be great choirs as well as moan

in late night fires. You�ll be a shrine,

a grove, a pipe, for Your own soul

linked to some eternal Light.

29/11/96.