Minotaur's Epitaph

minotaur

Theseus kills the minotaur

Minotaur's Epitaph originally
appeared in The Formalist

Remember me. This house has many rooms,
Alike, innumerable, cool, austere.
It echoes with the sounds of those once here,
Whose countless lives were woven on one loom
With one slim thread that has a single doom.
Perhaps I, too, may in this house appear.
Remember me.

For in this maze of silence and of gloom,
This house of time, this infinite frontier,
We come eventually to a garden where,
For all these lives, a single flower blooms.

Remember me.