Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

Being Orpheus

What else could he have done?

Her steps were silent on the stone.

He could not speak or turn, he could not

Turn. Could not see if silence

Wrapped her rising with him.

The road shrank upwards; light was far away.

Somewhere below, two figures watched in shadow.

But were they watching two ascend, or one?

Were those her footsteps that he could not hear?

Behind him was a god who never stained himself

With mercy. Light was a long way off.

What would he do if in the end

He turned under the sun and was alone?

And somewhere then, behind all mysteries,

Where magic had its source, where

Sorcery was woven and the gods were born,

A song began. A song of mourning and lament,

Of sorrow not assuaged in all the years

That, following, towered into time.

Being Orpheus. A song of loss to break

The hearts of beasts, to break the grip

Of earth on stone, to bend the starlight

Streaming to the world.

Light was so far ahead it was a prayer,

And the only god who mattered was behind.

He could not speak. Silence was the law

Through his contracting universe.

But still there grew a music,

Spinning itself down within his making,

In places where he did not know he was.

A lament that was crying for a sorrow yet unborn,

Sorrow that might not be unless he turned.

And yet the rocks would break, the trees.

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