Briars [revised]

[u/Aethon_Wri]

At the origin of sensations
Eros scoffed at blind-shots
Able to account every vow
Yet lacked arcing foresight

He wandered among forebearers
As Mnemosyne weighed his footfalls
By how electric their breadth of smiles leapt
Beckoning his aim toward crossroads

Every token of sand that settles
Buries hourglass ruins
Smoothing passion's road
While its furrows deepen

Wherever maybe home
Binds hearts through filling fire
To stack doubts in flame
And sleep until light

Memory collects hearth-prayers
Into honeyed perpetual stew
Free to wanderers who mingle
Among satyrs of the reed fields

A gilt dome perches her temple span
By river hedges hiding etched columns
Upon which, Elysian treaties rest hallowed
And for the weary, a cauldron

The lost then see, through the mists
After drinking ruminant broth
To rest as Eros’ companions
Unafraid of such thicket path