but if you have kids one day, 

please don’t forget to explain 

why i’ll call them children of Poseidon 

and tell them that i’m Medusa.

  

i know you’ll remember to tell them 

how much i worshipped you, 

but i hope you also mention 

that it never could have saved me.

  

but please, show them the pictures, 

show them how we smiled wide 

with our evergreen group of friends 

but keep in mind all the tears. 

 

so please, brag all you want 

but never forget, Poseidon 

that while all gods are eventually forgotten, 

while the monsters you create, we are infinite. 

par Alessia Meroni