“can anybody love anyone so much that they will never fear, / never worry, never be sad?”

[larryhammer]

One last mythic narrative poem for this round, this one not only not a sex farce but also not actually from the trunk (it did get published). Possibly, despite the ending, the most straight up romantic story I’ve ever written.

Psyche, at Midnight, in the Dark (537 words) by lnhammer
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Metamorphoses - Apuleius
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eros/Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Characters: Eros (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Secret Identity Fail, Divine Marriage, MacGyvering a Lamp, Romantic Angst, Poetry, Couplets
Summary:

She waited one full year and one day more
but still he didn’t tell her. And when for
one more last time she asked to see the face
that in the darkness she could only trace,
he stopped her with a finger on her lips—
“You cannot.”

Or, how the stories we tell blind us.

---L.

Subject quote from What Is Love, Howard Jones.