"Unveiling the Gorgon: Exploring Medusa's Story in a Free Verse Poem"

Medusa

• written on January 29th, 2024.

Medusa

seen as nothing more than

a stone-making monster

to many

but not to me

 

I see a woman

who was forced to experience pain, hurt, and the ultimate betrayal

by someone she spent her whole life praising and proving loyalty to

only to be turned into and portrayed now as a hideous hissing monstrous stone

by them

 

but what they do not realize

is the pain and betrayal

only made you

stronger, wiser,

and where they think your beauty is gone

it resides in the emerald snake eyes that turn things to

stone

 

stones that create images

of the emotions that even the gods fear so much

but not you

because your experience of loneliness and survival

have made you a

strong, intelligent, beautifully abstract woman

despite their desires and attempts to make you out to be the monster

of the story, they could not bear, to tell the truth of

 

but one day they will learn

that sometimes

the best beauty is found in the broken pieces that put themselves back together

all on their own.