i

many centuries ago

i burned a troy.

i hated my husband.

(i am the eternal seducer.)

many centuries later

my son said-

"frailty, thy name is woman."

i hated his father.

(i am a woman of loose morals.)

yesterday in a newspaper

my father raped me

tomorrow they will burn me in the temple square.

they say now-

i am the apple, the serpent and also the ear

i am the witch that needs always be burned.