Shalott's Brother

Shalott’s Brother 

Looking at the world on this stage of glass

the only mirror I can bear

I am so tired of Shades

yet so desperate to avoid my poetic sister’s fate

Banished by a mother to an underworld

because of a nature I could not see

born a man

I became a Hades

This is my home

This is my tomb

Some hear a Highwayman of the boards

with the hounds of hell close at heel

Hear, willing Persephone, the thief of your voice

the purveyor of your heart

with the dogs of love

on the right side of danger

Music is the coin of this realm

so take this Charon’s hand

cross this Parisian Styx

this river of your belief

and I will speak the mysteries

of a Seraph living yet undead

Let us exchange this experience

January 18, 2011

Tressa Lee Breen

A mash-up of "The Phantom Of The Opera", "The Lady Of Shalott", "Beauty & The Beast" with a bit of "The Highwayman" & some Greek mythology just because.