Cursed

I'm no longer that maiden,

They called 'ravishingly beautiful'

Once upon a time, aeons ago

For they're now petrified to death

By my horrendous, stone-cold gaze.

They scurry away at the macabre sight

Of my long, Slytherin tresses,

A tangled mass of hissing serpents

Which strangulate me every day.

O, Athena! Why did thee curse me

Favouring Poseidon, my predator

Who fed on my flesh and blood

Tainting thy holy temple?

I was denuded and besmirched,

Endured a million incisions on my skin.

While my shrieks rose to a crescendo,

My chastity was being questioned

In your innuendos.

I wasn't the only one

Who ate the forbidden fruit!

Yet, why was I labelled

The sole traitor in thy homeland

To face this wrath?

Why was my soul put through

A million sieves?

Just because I was Eve?

I've resurrected from my ashes like a phoenix,

Yet plunged again into those embers.

Cursed to never look into a man's eyes

This seething love of mine is

Now an inferno.