I
am on my
knees
as I meet
your
gaze
and for a moment
you are
god
and
I take
the time to
wonder
if he ever cared to
listen
to any single one
of our
prayers.
About
I thought it would be fun to make a bit of an art piece with CSS since i very much enjoy the medium. The inspiration came from This image.The painting is, as mentioned, Lamia and the soldier by john william waterhouse. It's one of two paintings he made of Lamia, who is a serpentine woman who seduces and kills young men and eats children, due to the immesurable grief of Hera killing the children she had with Zeus. I wrote the first three lines before I knew of her context, and added the other two after.
Waterhouse was a pre-raphaelite, a group that (from my understanding) quite liked a good layered art piece: something that not only draws from history but comments on the present in some way. (the modern comment of this painting being only finding out about someone's true, cruel, nature when it's too late - note that Lamia has legs, as opposed to her lower half being a snake, but a snake skin wrapped around her) I find this fun, too, and so I played a little bit with it.
The text has a quite straightforward connection to Lamia: having loved a god, and that twinge of missing what you had. I went with the pronoun "he" despite "they" potentially fitting better, mostly because then it's not so obviously greek lol. The feeling of "yes, he helped me after what happened, but could he have stopped it?" The grief, of course. And for a moment he is god, and she needs revenge. Would she kill the gods, too, if she could? you get the gist.
What I was trying to convey if you don't know of Lamia is something I'll leave up to interpretation because that's more fun.