sleeping beauty

while she slept the earth would unfold
to reveal secrets of time
and love.
a world lost in subterfuge of salvation,
whispered questions as reason
and remorse

how to repent without remembering
how to rename the apple even as it grows

lessons taught by gods on
crumbled steps of new parthenons,
turned metal to men,
baptized them in color,
a thousand shades
without end

and gave her answers that could rock her into liberation

or would have,
if she had remembered them upon waking