Electra’s Love (Poem)

driven to the refuge of shadows

so not to become her mother’s sacrificial prey

another child offered to uncaring gods

by a parent bent on insane pursuit of their own goals

she watched as her mother danced about with gibbering glee

and even as she shouted in her madness

words that jangled with sharp strident barbs

and waved her anger hotter than any blazing branch

Electra loved her, even as she wept in fear