This is a poem I wrote inspired two Greek myths, the first one is that Apollo made transgender people on accident while drunk and trying to create gay people, the second is that humans were molded by the gods from clay. This is about my genderfluidity and the dysphoria that comes with the body I was born in, I know its not very good but i wanted to share anyway :) hope you like it!
Sculpted by a Drunk Apollo, by Nex Pendragon
A body made of clay
Sculpted by a drunk Apollo
Intoxicated by the nectar of Gods
My form was once movable
Shifting by the touch of his hands
My body soft and infinite
I could have been anything
But he gifted me with a curse
The God shoved me into the wrong mold
The wrong name branded into my skin
And I was put into an oven
Goddess of the hearth, Goddess of warmth, Hestia solidified my state
A statue of stone I became
Like a fool wandering into Medusa's cave
Sculpted by a drunk Apollo
My body was returned to the earth where it was once nothing and all
I sobbed and prayed to the sun God
Make me clay again
I begged
But too late were my my words
For he no longer remembered his night of sipping nectar
The name etched into my skin burned like poison
And when my mother said it I would try not to listen
The body I was gifted was no present
It wasn't mine to use as I pleased
Sculpted by a drunk Apollo
My body laid still
Quietly swaying in the ocean
As broken pieces of my pottery made skull
Stood shattered under a cliff adorned with rocks
Aphrodite was born like a pearl picked from a clam
But my body will never again walk along man
I wonder sometimes if he cared for his work at all
I wonder sometimes if my fate would end the same
If I wasn't sculpted
By a drunk Apollo