Modern Day Prometheus

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Gefesselter Prometheus by Peter Paul Rubens

Painting by Peter Paul Rubens [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Written Feb. 24, 1992.

High upon a mountain
my heart waits for you
chained to a rock
     like Faye awaiting Kong
Then they come
picking and rending
pieces of my heart
They fly away
     like vultures
     with bits of Promethean liver
     hanging from their mouths
I endure
     For how can I not?
Like a modern day Prometheus
my heart heals
awaiting the one
who will break the chain

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About the author

Carma Spence is an award-winning, bestselling author of nonfiction, however, she has been writing fiction and poetry for much longer -- just not publishing it. She plans to change that sometime soon.