The Plight Of Medea

Love? By Jove how can this be my fate?
To love the one my king and kingdom hate?
Must I betray my father and his land?
Must they both fall under my guilty hand?

Oh, alas for I am torn in two parts.
Oh, how much simpler if I had two hearts.
I could love my Jason and love him true,
Yet love my father as a daughter must do.

Jason my love, you have called for my aid.
In your marriage to me, I shall be repaid.
Who am I to refuse this love so strong?
To remain idle would be a great wrong.

Now I see the path of my destiny.
I look to you my goddess Hecate.
Grant me potions to help my beloved,
So we have the freedom to be married.

Goodbye Colchis, goodbye my father.
Soon I shall set sail on the vast waters
I long for the safeness of Corinth’s shores.
To live there with Jason forever more.