Realm of Hades

from The Allegory of Youth by Axel Kacoutié

	/

Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

I was drawn the darkness taunted me.
The light against the shadows left me in awe and wonder at what I saw before me. Like the dusk, her beauty emanated the glory of a magnificent day captured at its final moment. A fickle memory could never sustain the grace of her being nor could the wisest ignore it.
I fell in love with the devil and the devil loved me.
She kept hell at bay yet I could still feel the heat.  I could see the remains of broken hearts left behind by those who were once men. The skeletons she tried to hide clattered whenever she closed her chamber doors. Only those infatuated would be unable to hear the incessant blathering.
I wanted it all and she would give. Nothing was ever too much yet it was never enough.  I became ravenous and she knew.  Once hearken to the sound of her calling the Siren now hushed.  Medusa feared my gaze.  My eyes wondered too far into her gloaming world,  my passions were no longer virtuous.  Glimpses of what lay behind the mask aroused my insatiable curiosity but nevertheless Pandora's box remained shut.  
What I wanted as mine she was never prepared to give. The truths I yearned for never to be known. She had given me new life, and with it she had my heart. An item she never claimed.

I was spared.

A blessing in disguise, or perhaps I'm merely the man who lived to recite the story of those who none lived to tell?

by Axel Kacoutié

credits

from The Allegory of Youth, released March 18, 2017

license

about

Axel Kacoutié London, UK

Axel Kacoutié is a poet and composer from South London. He uses poetry, music and art to explore themes on love, identity and the human condition, bridging the gap between the mundane and the unseen.