I am Oedipus

If you know of the play, Oedipus, you will understand it more. The Metaphors of sight and blindness are key and are evident throughout the original play so I wanted to include them.

Cithaeron, protector, savior

Had you known the fate of the boy

Would you have brought the Shepherd to him?

 

And so the prophecy lived, I lived

the child of Liaus the Plague on Thebes

To kill his father and love his mother.

 

Sphinx, OH mighty demon of Hera

your riddle for man, how devious and clear

When I was triumphant. They gave me a crown.

 

Years have gone by, now a plague upon my city.

Ravaged are our cattle and poisoned are our young

I would save them all from this sickness.

 

When he told me the truth.

That caused my city so much pain

That the blood on my hands made it so.

 

Jocasta, my lover, my Mother

How can it be so?

My daughters disgraced by their blood!

 

Why did I think that I could cheat the Gods?

That I, a man could change my fate?

I am the poison in my home.

 

I can see now, that I was blinded

Phoebus has shown me the truth

The truth I had hidden myself from.

 

I take the sight given to me by Lord Zeus

I shall live out my days in exile

No longer a plague upon all that I see.

 

 

 

Author's Note

This was written in Sixth Form and I wanted to keep it from the other students, so I could't keep checking spelling. I do Apologise.

Reviews

[BeccaB]

this has a lovely theme and its a very strong piece of writen beautifuly written by a new writter and a close friend ^_^

[Cyrano]

Love the theme you chose especially because the Oedipus tale is scary on a freudian level. You made it digestable and sound beautiful even though the theme is about patricide and incest. Good job