Godhammer
Galatea's is a story of transformation, and features in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The sculptor Pygmalion falls in love with his ivory creation, and a helpful Aphrodite breathes Galatea to life.

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Galatea

After the inevitable,
Her heart's sorrow hardened
Her features, and she assumed
The sweating skin
Of the rock from whence
She'd sprung,
Bidden by gods.

Frightened, unable
To comprehend
The cold, marble-soft
Chest, nor his stiffening
Limbs, she began to emulate
His recalcitrance,
And became as stone.

Now she lunges from
An iron pedestal in the sunken
Atrium of the regency; hair
Swept back, lithe back
Bowed, arms outflung, fingers
Splayed — lips parted to accept
His touch as once she did,

That she may breathe again.

Mythology & Epic Poetry