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Hera
Poem: Tormented Goddess — Victim or Fury?
#BookReview This poem was inspirated byJennifer Saint’s book, “HERA” — a wonderful, imaginative, dark and devious, but oh so humane tale of a mythological goddess trying to survive, caught between outer violence and inner fury.
Goddess of Goddesses
Queen of the All
Her beauty and radiance
Far beyond human conception
He took her by violence
A marriage contaminated
She weeps in solitude
Her vows a shambles
The world reiterates them
A thousand times over
Her blessing called upon
Any couple’s come together
Eyes flashing; no word leaves her lips
Her fury aimed at mere mortals
The wrath against him she inflicts
on fellow victims. They are destroyed
Dangerous demons her offspring
Her tormented heart turned cold
Because of him, the manipulator
She his sister, wife, creation
‘Me Too’ eventually brings compassion
for wounded others. With them, she waits
Succumbs to his…
