A DAY BEFORE PERSEUS PREYS

Cedric Lewis III

IG: @_westpunk

“The Last Days of Medusa” | Raven Smith | 2024

I pray the seeds I sow grow a heart of forgiveness and understanding. This sacrifice I’m due to give is my destiny. This is beyond my control for this is my epilogue. So many people get hurt in defense; so many people put out their misery. Those I hate. And those I love..

Poseidon’s force cursed me. My hair, my eyes, from fine to fierce. Let this curse end with me. They want my head as a cabin prop and I don’t know if I can fight it anymore. Liberate me and water my seeds when I’m gone. I’ve dreamt of wings in the sky, of gold, of the unbreakable, the unseen.

I used to cry myself to sleep, Praying one day I could be apart. My immortal Gorgon sisters intimidated me. Why couldn’t I be like them ? Why am I to be cursed with beauty and mortality? I can’t control who I was born to be. I can only look away and accept the  judgment. The narratives. The pain; as I sleep a day before Perseus preys.