Multiple Decapitation

Send to the East coast of our beloved peninsula
To the South of Argos to Poseidon’s gift to the Argive, Lake of Lerna

Upon reaching the swamp springs
With cloth covered nose and mouth
To protect ourselves from its poisonous fumes
To crawl into her lair
One entrance of Tartarus
And we got confronted with this...

Serpent, dragon, monster
The Cthonican daughter of Typhon, Echidna
Theogonian womb of monsters
Many-headed monster
Called the Hydra
Poisonous blood in her veins
And venomous breath

Shooting my flammable arrows
To enlighten her cave
This lair of the “Blameless One”
With each decapitation
One head grows back to two
...an expression of my hopelessness

Many-headed serpent
This Lernaean Hydra
Poisonous blood in her veins
And venomous breath

This ongoing struggle
Twelve heads where there used to be six
With burning torch we scorch the open wounds

At last I cut off its mortal head
With the golden sword of the Gods
And buried it six feet down
Dipping my light-speeding arrows
In its poisonous blood
Together with the Lion’s skin I am invincible