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I am Io

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Literature Text

You hover over me
like my storm cloud
You're my 'Zeus'
and I your 'Io'
You shape me as you will
I flee from the mess you give me
But I am not Io
There is no Egypt for me
I will not be their goddess
The story of Zeus and Io:

Hera is a jealous wife of Zeus. When she sees a storm cloud, she nows her girl crazy husband is with another human girl. She rushes to the cloud to finde Zeus with a white cow (originally Io but Zeus turned her to a cow because he saw Hera coming). When Hera asked for the cow, Zeus could not refuse.
Hera tied Io to a tree and had her 100 eyed servant watch her. Hermes came and told the beast a boring story. Aegis (not sure of the servant's name) closed all of his eyes and Hermes put him to eternal sleep. Hermes then sent Io free.
Hera sent some kind of bug after Io and she fled. Io fled to Eygpt and was treated as a goddess.


I wrote this too let out some emotions, to share how I feel I guess.
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catcrunchies's avatar
I really like the poem ^^

I think the servant was called Argos, but that might depends on the version of the myth I read ^_^;