Athens Within a Nightclub

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And she reaches out,

This woman who does not exist,

Traces my soul with her fingertips
And places her hand upon my chest.

She sees me - 
From top to bottom,
My pain, my sins and my history.


"Come fight for me",


She whispers,


"And I will give you everything."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJSQxbedplM


And beneath the strobe lights,

Between the dancing footsteps of oblivion
And the shutter play of the darkened labyrinthian,

I am held fast and caught firmly.

Never have I known an unspoken familiarity
And never have I been seen like this -

No caution, no misgivings,
No contortion and no distrust -

No suspicion, no idolatry,
No frivolity and no disgust.


"Okay", I reply


And just like that...

She has me, fingertips aside. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdB3mi9Ur0c


And by the wrist she takes me,
Weaving through a crowd of irrelevancy -

Helmet atop a headdress,
Shield upon the back,

An owl upon her shoulder

And the spear within her hand.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDTeDP4vjNY&list=PLbsgOyRLYNfZk-7fJE7iXt26_Y6888B36&index=11


And as she walks the marble beneath her sandals crack,
Ricochets atop a zodiac floor and the air thick with cognac.

Dragging my heel across the windblown circles
And digging toes within the sand,

She locks my eyes with a backward glance

And a smile befitting illusion. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EA-MIYY1bg&index=15&list=PLbsgOyRLYNfZk-7fJE7iXt26_Y6888B36


And before we clear the foyer,
Before I reach the gate,

I blink to find an empty hall

And the memory of timeless eyes


I think I might commemorate.


Finis

Author's Note

(tbc)