APHRODITE

...she startles me
with her ever changing Beauty.
A Lady beyond,
the Woman within.
Child-like, her Innocence deceives.

She inhabits the ninth circle
of the underworld,
tempering fires of passion,
stilling them
in her frozen depths.

Her glitter reflects Perfection,
her crystallized, sharp-edged truths, absolute.
wounded, tho, she is,
her polygamious spirit misunderstood.


A sacred tear bleeds,
falls from a dreamer's eye.
the glacial-cold heart of the Ice-Maiden,
melts.
One tear creates a river.
The Ancient Riverbed flows...
Aphrodite animates the world
with her Beauty,
the visible form of Soul, itself.