Eros

The flowerlike
animal perfume
in the god-s curly
hair -

don-t assume
that like a flower
his attributes
are there to tempt

you or
direct the moth-s
hunger -
simply he is
the temple of himself,

hair and hide
a sacrifice of blood and flowers
on his altar

if any worshipper
kneel or not.

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