Week of Power
12th of December - The Spinners (Arachne and Athena)
Everytime I see you use your webs
to catch small prey insects,
I think you as a human girl had aimed for bigger prey,
the grandest of them all.
You had the gall... No, the GUTS
to portray my Lord Father and all other Olympians
warts and all on your tapestry,
with their affairs and the ensuing scandals.
Why did I say I won? To uphold decency?
No, it was green-eyed envy because
a goddess hadn't dared to take those potshots
and a human had been bold, brave, by far, to do it.
I was wrong, Arachne.
If you can still hear me in that tiny eight-legged form...
I say I retract my victory. You win.