Echo

Echo kept Hera busy storytelling

While Zeus was nymph ring belling.


Hera caught on, and she got even;

but she wouldn't think of leavin'.


Of course Zeus got off scot free,

but Echo caught Hera hell. See...


Hera left Echo with no speech of her own

That's how Hera's vengence was shown.


Echo's voice now repeats other's words only

Due to Zeus, she is silent and lonely.


Echo saw Narcissus, he saw his reflection

She could not replace him in his affection.


Because as beautiful as Echo may be,

Narcissus loved no other more than he.


Echo cried until she became a ghostly refrain

while Narcissus became - a daffadil brain.

myth © 2014 Tamera Dobbins