Laura

Eternal Punishment

This is a submission for Kevin’s No Theme Thursday.

Image by Kevin from The Beginning at Last

It was a myth they said

Tale as old as time

A king who should’ve been dead

With trickery he cheated death twice

Until one day

Zeus made him pay the ultimate price

Chained in Tartarus – a punishment, an obstruction

The moral is

No one can forsake their comeuppance

Rolling the heaviest boulder uphill

Damnation eternal

Hardship that will test your will

Power hungry

A cycle that never stops

Just when you think you’re through

Repeating like a broken clock

Accept what the fates have in store

Sometimes it’s better

To live your mortal life and not seek more

Changing your path when you must

For good intentions

Hoping never to end up like Sisyphus

©️ Laura Bennett

A shorter one, as I’m still not quite back in the swing of writing yet, also probably not my best work. Can’t resist my Greek stories and lessons, however.

Thanks for reading.

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  4. Excellent writing and excellent lesson, Laura. Thank you for posting this even though I know you’re still not feeling all that great. Most deeply appreciated. 😊😊😊

    Get well soon. 🙏

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  18. I love the Sisyphus story. I bookended a whole novel around that one—it’s very suited to how us writers think—every day, back at it, trying again to make something out of nothing, never getting the load off, art as burden, etc.

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    • So much agreed! Always continuing upwards only to have it all fall back down on you over and over again!! And then getting back up for more punishment! Lol 😆
      Thank you 🙏
      Did you ever get to go out on the lake?

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