Erred by Avarice

 

​I am just a devotee,

And you are inside the temple.

It feels wrong to love you.

I can't touch you;

I can’t be like you.

Everything about you makes me want you more,

But I am a mere human,

And you are a deity.

​"Daughter of human and son of God

Are never meant to be," they say,

But I really want to touch that heart.

I know it would cost my life,

Yet I am drawn to you.

For some reason it feels like I am one of you,

May because I share few similarities.

But I, a mere human, can only dream.

​If you accept my eternal love,

The gods and goddesses and your followers will call you a fool.

But I can't resist the desire I feel inside me;

I have erred by the avarice for you.

They told me I might be the daughter of the devil even,

Yet some say I am the daughter of Zeus.

I don't want all these crowns;

All I want is you.

​You are immortal, and I am a mortal.

You reflect the pearls,

While I camouflage in the soil.

You smell divine, while I smell wheat,

But our eyes look similar.

What if it is true that I am an abandoned goddess?

Will you accept me then?

If I sat on one of the thrones in Athens,

If I too had mystic powers flowing through my fingers,

If I was also divine,

Will you embrace me?

​Oh, I have sinned, thinking I can be a goddess.

I have compared, me, a mere mortal,

To you, the divine.

But is it wrong to desire someone higher,

Divine and stronger than me?

All I want is to feel your arms on me,

To be by your side till I breathe my last,

To kiss and to be kissed by you.

But you always will be a god,

And I always will be a mere human on earth.