Medusa

Medusa

Medusa didn’t die

in the pantheon of mythologies,

she lives inside us with her ravenous eyes.

She has no gender or specific place,

she keeps growing in our body

like a terminal illness.

To find her all we need to do

is stare

into the face of cancer,

stare at the snakes that fall from our hair,

at the man who breaks like a child.