201. A New Body and Home
A New Body and Home
I would not have noticed it,
I was so busy building
my own palace on the shore
of Mnemosyne, collecting bones
and crystal-like memories
to make way for my new home.
It simply happened that one day
I was standing next to Thanatos
as we built my palace
and then I realized,
he no longer towered over me.
Instead, we stood almost
shoulder to shoulder,
willing the white marble
to settle into the earth’s crust.
A grand wooden kitchen
full of everlasting food.
A white marble and
obsidian hall to greet guests
and play dice.
But my favoured room,
the one I loved most,
was in the onyx tower
that rose through the earth’s crust
into the land of the living.
Hidden from mortal eyes
by a forest, it was there
that I had built a home
for the owls I would take in
as my very own.
Charon helped carve
heavy oaken doors
for me. And often,
we would all sit on
the banks of Mnemosyne.
It was the most at peace
I had felt since
I had been in
my first home
with my mother.