Endymion by Gary Allen [modern] Selene, the Moon, ravished by Endymion's beauty as he steps one evening into her light, casts a spell upon him. He falls in the grass into a peaceful, immortal sleep, preserved from competing loves & trickery of fate. Each night Selene goes to him, removes his tunic, adores his young black curls, dotes on his lips, his silken rippled chest, making love to his unconscious perfection until Apollo approaches. Hidden from daylight commerce, Selene's passion torments her, gnaws in the shadow of her every thought, knowing that to waken his mortality is to lose him, she remains enslaved by his beauty & awaits her private hour when she journeys to him across cold space.