Chapter 2 Invocation to the goddess Inanna.
Great Inanna,
Heaven’s Queen,
Goddess of Love, Wisdom, and War
I come
beseeching you once more.
For
I am Anna,
faithful servant,
appointed by my father’s hand –
Priestess of the Temple Uruk,
the Temple Ur,
and of your land.
Your muse, I ask you place upon me
that all may know
and all may see
my shame
relinquished by an army –
the ebb and flow of destiny.
Reveal the passion
of an era,
mighty fortresses of stone
the blackest heart
chained walls of terror
– Lugan-
A kingdom overthrown.
Reveal
my naked shackled lashes,
lust and longings of the crown –
blood and metal
thundered clashes
limply lowered to the ground.
Cast a vision of my exile,
journeyed hills through fields and farms,
running like the mighty Tigris
back into my brother’s arms.
Flame the fires of vindication.
Vengeance breeds its’ just reward.
An army of retaliation
brings even kings to kiss the sword.
Oh, Goddess
make my heart remember
a man whose eyes impaled my soul
and left his seeds
like burning embers
(but embers finally grow cold)
Time tarnishes the silver linings,
dulls the luster of the cup
where tainted wine unwound the bindings
– too tight for lovers to disrupt –
