Goddess of the Nile

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The honey-tongued devil, sewn onto skin,

Each stitch, turquoise and emerald bodies

Entwined; coffined in the indigo tide,

It whispers honeyed words, sticking like tar

To every sinew, siren song of my mind.

Under constellations of chaos,

I am Anuket.

Crown of honeyed reeds stuck to my head,

I lull in blue depths I can no longer tread.

I am she who strangles with hands tinged teal,

And she who embraces suffocation, undesired to heal.

In the shallows of the seductress Nile

The devil cross-stitches my rigid bones

To the lovesong lies it smothers me in.

I am taken to stasis, a sunken soul,

The viridescent waters had taken control.

The Nile’s aqua cascaded down

My waxen limbs; sunken in sage.

I stared up at the stars through murky waters,

Their honey-glow a blur beneath the blue.

A cyan casket masks my female form,

A blue goddess swept up in the storm.

The Nile’s power had long been fated,

Anuket’s destruction now awaited.