Ariadne:
Gone!
He has fled,
My only companion,
My splendid enemy,
My unknown,
My executioner-god! …
No!
Come back!
With all your afflictions!
All my tears gush forth
To you they stream
And the last flames of my heart
Glow for you.
Oh, come back,
My unknown god! my pain!
My ultimate happiness!….
A lightening bolt. Dionysus becomes visible in emerald beauty.
Dionysus:
Be clever, Ariadne!…
You have little ears; you have my ears:
Put a clever word in them! —
Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself?…
I am your labyrinth…
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ariadne’s Lament
Tagged: ariadne
