Orpheus and Male Reincarnation
When Orpheus decided that he craved
Escape from women utterly and so
Desired migration of his spirit saved
From birth to any of them and to go
Instead into the beauty of a cob,
The poet did not try to fly away
To some escape from further deaths. To rob
Death of its wrongful right or to dismay
Long universal laws was not the singer’s aim.
We wanted rid of women, that is all.
Repeated deaths are fated. But the shame
He hated was the thought his soul would crawl
Inside a woman’s womb. He feared such sacks
Because of clawed soft hands and their attacks.