Status Updates From Eros dulce y amargo

“Atthis, your care for me stirred hatred in you.
And you flew to Andromeda.”

I’m genuinely shivering this broke me

“in reality the beginning is the one moment that you, as an unwitting target of winged eros, cannot control. all that this moment brings, both good and evil, bitter and sweet, comes gratuitously and unpredictably - a gift of the gods, as the poets say.”