In
Greek mythology the Minotaur dwelt at the centre of the Labyrinth. This sonnet was directly inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges short
story 'The House of Asterion'
My
house is infinite, and all its gates
admit
to every temple, street and strand ‒
a
model of the universe, a plan
of
unremembered worlds which I create
for
wanderers, that I might lift the weight
of
evil from their hearts and from their hands ‒
where
bodies rest, to mark at my command
the
tangled lines of geometric fate.
But
now my own redeemer stands without
these
countless walls ‒ as sunlight
falls to shade,
his
lover draws a thread to comfort me
and
gently still all traces of self doubt.
The
princess prays, the killer slips his blade
to
cut the cord and finally set me free.
RJT
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