Oh, this was neat! I'm always a sucker for minotaur stories, and I liked the form and language of this, especially
Power
on its own, both the answer to the statement above it and the seed of the next stanza in which ownership of the power shifts.
never guessing at my wholeness or the shadow of my crescent heart. This, too, which married the moon and scythe symbolism together, and showed a person who has been used up and beaten down but is not done, far from it, and whose wrath will bring forth unforeseen destruction.
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Power
on its own, both the answer to the statement above it and the seed of the next stanza in which ownership of the power shifts.
never guessing at my wholeness or
the shadow of my crescent heart.
This, too, which married the moon and scythe symbolism together, and showed a person who has been used up and beaten down but is not done, far from it, and whose wrath will bring forth unforeseen destruction.
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