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  1. Journals

Calliope - Session 21

Song
Session 21 - The Temple of Helios
August 18, 2020
Forgotten Gods
(Tune: haunting and slow)

A God once so strong
We cannot remember, remember them
Time has made the choice for us1
Their stories all but lost
Their light has gone, it is gone
With not a single thought
To who they were once2

And so the Titans
Perhaps we should forget, forget them
To try to break their power over us
All they do is take,
They are but tyrants, such tyrants 
And in their wake,
We find our lives thrust

Once upon a time,
We loved you lik…

[Half-finished, the words trail off messily in the middle of the page as Calliope falls asleep.]

Footnotes

1Even Kyrah didn’t recognise the name ‘Helios’ - which means the God is exceedingly old. Or the Satyr guarding the shrine was mistaken I guess. I mean, it sounds like he had been there long enough, alone, that he might very well have just been very, very confused! He certainly wasn’t much of a people person at any rate…


2There was some argument about what to do with the things we found in the temple. I can understand Theo’s hesitance: but if they will be useful to us in saving Thylea, I am not sure there was any harm in taking them. I mean, it doesn’t seem like it would be hurting anyone. I hope.

February 20th, 2021