Will You Fade

Here I reap barley, corn and wheat
 In this field dark and bleak
 Eros holds the keys I seek
 Psyche’s tasks to complete
 
I loved him blindly
 Never saw his face by day
 I loved him nightly
 Aphrodite
 
From my lips Venus fountains drip
 Bittersweetness
 Eden howls behind garden walls
 Reed pipes for wantoness
 
I held the lamp
 Suspicion beheld me his face
 I held the lamp
 My lover flew away
 
I loved him blindly
 Never saw his face by day
 I loved him nightly
 Aphrodite
 
In the shadows of passion’s throws
 Love’s harvest seemed so cruel
 Black rivers cross beauty’s domain
 Mortal world you begin to fade
 
I loved him blindly
 Never saw his face by day
 I loved him nightly
 My lover flew away
 
I loved him blindly
 Never saw his face by day
 I loved him nightly
 Aphrodite
 
– from Flux, 1998
 by Kristen Perry-Gow