September 2, 2024
The Isle Of Pompeii
I’m in control of myself now.
I’m a marble statue of a goddess on the Isle of Pompeii.
What can I feel? Nothing. I’ve only to stand here.
Oh! there’s a great rumbling and shaking!
Vesuvius is erupting!! Exploding fire and lava!
I’m shattering, cracking, falling in pieces,
falling to the ground.
I’m covered in deep, deep volcanic ash.
But there he his, far above me.
The Archaeologist, digging and digging to find me,
to uncover me, and put me back together again ~
so I will continue to love him.
