In Place of One's Parents

In Place of One's Parents

attempt a respectable burial
share until expired
gathered in conflict

who has after death
not buried or even mourned
on pain's order caught

In Other Versions

it occurs in the years after
and death struggles against
and admits

forbidding mourning
but to break human law
defies courage, passion
ends disaster

In a Tomb a Change

of heart to release
who was loved in despair
been forced throughout

death is a typical tragedy
flaws character
to irrevocable figures
sense as struggle toward
forsaken by the gods

In Other Places

placing the body
the funeral depicted aversion
apparently being handed over
secretly carried off
concealed and recognized

by the body still alive
demi-god
to forgive in vain and self