Tomb Of His Heart

Tomb Of His Heart
© Surazeus
2023 01 26

The unconsoled widower in dark woods 
escapes from crumbling tower of Aquitaine, 
clutching lute he once played for his sweet bride, 
and stumbles under black sun of despair, 
unable to find pure star of his love 
that gleams with melancholy of lost hope. 

Trembling all night in the vine-entwined tomb, 
the groaning widow prince of Aquitaine 
plays untuned strings of the star-spangled lute 
and sings heart-aching ballad of the day 
he met sweet Melusine by garden well 
in lush villa maze of Pausilypon. 

High on rocky cliff above secret grotto, 
where Odysseus outwitted the Cyclopes, 
the virile star-eyed prince of Aquitaine, 
dressed as Phoebus with his star-spangled lute, 
gazes entranced with love at Melusine, 
fairy who dances with serpentine grace. 

Enchanted with love that pierces their hearts, 
Phoebus and Melusine embrace and kiss 
with passionate desire of timeless trust 
by trellis where the vine entwines the rose, 
bodies buzzing with chemical desire 
to generate new life from heart of Earth. 

Sailing with his bride home to Aquitaine, 
Phoebus carries her up the winding stairs 
and locks her safe inside high tower room 
where Melusine eats apples every day 
and sings with blue sparrows on the windowsill 
that soar on fragile wings of liberty. 

Belly swelling ripe with child of his seed, 
Melusine sings in tall tower of hope, 
so Phoebus peers through window of her heart 
but stares surprised when his fairy transforms 
into scarlet serpent with star-gold eyes 
that coils around small room with lightning power. 

While giving birth to daughter of his soul, 
the serpent fairy with sapphire-blue eyes 
cries out in agony of wrenching pain, 
then Phoebus holds her in his arms and weeps 
with bereaved heart at loss of his sweet bride 
while their daughter wails for milk on her breast. 

Cradling baby Rapunzel in his arms, 
Phoebus sails across the broad Acheron 
to lay Melusine in tomb of his heart, 
then modulates lute with lyre of Orpheus 
and sings elegy that soothes bereaved heart 
as tower of Aquitaine crumbles to dust.