JASON

An old man, a beach bum

beside a ship coming apart,

a fallen hero on the desolate shore,

a myth ending in a lesson.

'Stop when you are winning'

- or you end up sleeping

under a ramshackle boat,

with your murdered children

long in their graves.

How many were there?

Two or was it four,

send to the Hadean gloom

by their mother's hand?

What could this dishevelled man,

for whom Medeia dismembered

her own brother, answer

before his death

by Argo's decay?

'To win is about not

knowing when to stop,

reaching for one more thing

until none are left to gain - or lose.'

11.10.2019