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Patroclus and Achille’s story is so heart wrenchingly summed up in this poem that even if you don’t like poetry if you enjoyed song of the Achilles I’m begging you to read it because it’s actually beautiful.

There just has to be a happier story for us my love - Tash J Curry

There has to be another life,

another us, somewhere.

A story in which we were happy,

after everything.

One where you’re not dying in my arms.

And I can’t save you.

There has to be one,

just that One.

Where we live.

Where, we find peace knowing that,

the war is over.

It’s done.

And we don’t have to fight anymore.

One

where

we can live.

There has to be a universe

where this isn’t the only ending,

we get. 

That they’re other stories, 

for us, out there. 

Because we can’t be...

this can’t be...

We’re not this Almost which was never enough for us,

for this story.

There has to be another.

This can’t be the only end.

We don’t Deserve this my love.

I hope we’re there in and amongst other stories,

Happy Ones,

because we lived

through too many tragedies

history won’t let us forget.

And I can’t lose you again.

I won’t.

We Deserve to be happy, my love.

I would pay to read a book about the alphabet if it was written by Madeline Millar

land of trust.

hey. i wrote this under fifteen minutes, so i genuinely understand if this doesn’t make any sense.

there’s a small reference to a greek god here. dolos. sometimes also referred to as dolus. in greek mythology, dolos is the spirit of trickery. he is also a master at cunning deception, craftiness, and treachery. dolos is an apprentice of the titan prometheus and a companion of the pseudea. his female counterpart is apate, who is the goddess of fraud and deception. his roman equivalent is mendacius. there are even some stories of dolos tricking gods into lies.

using the terminology “dolos’ follower” is basically trying to give benefit of the doubt. in order to hide someone’s dirty work by blaming it on something else or saying that it was done under someone’s pressure.

judas. judas iscariot, his name, is often used synonymously with betrayal or treason. according to all four canonical gospels, judas betrayed jesus to the sanhedrin in the garden of gethsemane by addressing him as "rabbi" to reveal his identity in the darkness to the crowd who had come to arrest him.

i don’t know how i feel about this little “part” of me that is always ready to forgive betrayal. it’s that part that would happily walk on a new path whilst leaving the worst behind, just because it (that part) is either deeply in love with that source of betrayal or because the hurt is too much to get a sensible reaction. it leaves you numb, in the puddle of agony, that drowns you until you can’t think straight.

“i hope you bury me before i bury you.” is simply my way of saying i hope you completely demolish all the pillars of faith you built in this land of trust because if i get to support myself on any of them, i will come back and build another home to all our false memories. so, it’s better if you ruin every last thing, before i decide to get back up and fight a war that i clearly have no interest in wining. “before i bury you-” to me means digging my grave.

The Dynamics of Peace and War

Ares and Aphrodite,

An unlikely duo,

I know.

How could war caress peace?

With all the bloodshed in tow?

How could peace dance with war?

When the opposition only continues to grow?

In times of war,

There can be peace.

Like when a soldier helps a child to their feet.

To help, to guide, to nurture back to full health.

In times of peace,

There can be war,

Like when colonial ships arrive at a foreign land’s shores.

To betray, to invade, to conquer the lands,

of the people who had extended a helping hand.

Diplomacy isn’t always an option,

Sometimes violence is the only solution.

To defend, to protect,

Violence can be justified.

And so can peace.

To prevent the blood of the innocent from being spilled,

To keep bodies from feeding the grass upon the hills,

War and peace co-exist,

The tides turn and they twist.

Ares and Aphrodite are always in each other’s midst.

Hunters of Artemis

Artemis,

Goddess of the Moon,

Cast your arrow,

Guide me with it’s brilliant light.

Show me the pathway,

To become stronger.

To become one of your apex hunters,

And not the prey in this game we call life.

Teach me the way of the wild,

Tell me how to use flint and steel to spark fire.

Point out the berries,

Those ones with the kiss of death,

And point out the ones that will return the steadiness of my breath.

Open my eyes,

Let me see how I can be truly self-sufficient,

How I can rely on nobody but myself and my surrounding environment.

Please,

Goddess,

Allow me to pledge my loyalty to you,

As a woman casted into exile,

I didn't have anybody's help.

So allow me the chance to prove myself,

And join the Hunters of Artemis.

Moon over the Temple of Poseidon. 1 - 2

Immediately thought of Achilles and Patroclus 😭

are there any fellow greeks here i want a convo

“Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?”

― C S Lewis, Till We Have Faces

What can life offer anyway

That I can't have with you in death?

What feels more like home anyway

Than it does besides your grave?

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i really love greek mythology and legends and stuff but i can’t reread any version of the story of orpheus and eurydice because every time i do i end up as this picture

the bacchae in translation, pt 4/?

wole soyinka, 1973

derek mohan, 1991

paul woodruff, 1999

reginald gibbons, 2001

colin teevan, 2002

anne carson, 2015

emily wilson, 2016

Just finished the song of Achilles and no amount of therapy can fix the pain I’m in rn

Band of brothers characters as Greek Gods/Goddess

Dick Winters - Achilles: the strongest warrior and hero in the Greek army during the Trojan War.

Lewis Nixon - Patroclus: Achilles Lover and Companion

Carwood Lipton - Persephone: the goddess queen of the underworld

Ronald Speirs - Hades: king of the dead.

Harry Welsh - Apollo: the god of music and healing.

George Luz - Hermès: the messenger god, a trickster, and a friend to thieves

Joe Toye - Hephaestus: the god of fire and the forge

Bill Guarnere - Dionysus: god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre.

Babe Heffron - Hera: The queen goddess of Olympus

Eugene Roe - Asclepius: God of medicine, health, healing, rejuvenation and physicians

Shifty Powers - Artemis: the goddess of the hunt

If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson

Sappho, fragment 26 - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

February 29, 2020

Currently reading and taking notes on philosophy and poetry from Greek writers in my most favorite journal. I wish I had a latte with me. ☕️ {mine}