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Adam's Poem (Archer in the Sky)
By Electra Complex
"The sunbeams are my shafts with which I kill
Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day.
All men who do, or even imagine ill
Fly me ..." - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Song of Apollo
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Guardian. Mentor. Doctor. Leader.
Nurturer is what they see
When they look at me, their breeder
What they never see is me
Take no male, abstain from women
Any need I do deny
They're your charges, you're the doctor
Says the Archer in the Sky
HE sends out his shafts for killing ... me
For venturing caress
Kill for thinking ill or filling
All your life with - tenderness
Shining archer, cause me sorrow
Call your curse upon my head
Hurt me deep, your gleaming arrows
They won't reach into my bed
Shall *you* judge my sleepless hours?
Nightly, when your eye is dim?
Think it twice! Your shafts are sunbeams
Never go *beneath* the skin.
Mine is flesh, my heart is human
I will take you for a ride
Save their lives - as I am virtuous
Never show the softer side.
Look at me, you won't go stealing
Fingers off the steering wheel
When you're drunk, on drugs, or feeling ...
Just don't notice how I feel.
Guardian. Mentor. Warden. Healer.
Sentinel is what you'll see
Fosterer and friend and leader.
What you'll never see is me.