The Foreswearing Of Nemesis Poem by Dennis Ryan

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'Nemesis, Daughter of the Night, was a venerable goddess in the Greek pantheon. She is our mortality, our ill fortune, our self-punishment, our universal inability to forgive ourselves everything.'
- Harold Bloom, 'Coda: Nemesis and Wisdom', Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

In sleep, dreams,
you might once again
hear yourself saying,
'I am your godsend,
your bond, your boon
and felicity.' You might
say such things to me,
and I, in turn, would
say them back to you,
forseswearing Nemesis
who stands closeby
overhearing it all.