The Persephone verses

Smile and taste the spring upon these lips

Wander with me among the flowers as they bloom

Only call me by name 

Need I say it aloud?

Or, do you know deep within?

Persephone 

Persephone is my name

Persephone,  who seeks the god of death 

Who seeks the god of death

His whispers call to me

Waking me in the palest night

Fluttering around me

Coaxing me awake

Drawing me toward the empty barge

Sightless moths batter the cage of my ribs

Pleading for a place in the sun

Is there no solace for me in this realm?

The fields of poppies give way to barley

Night drenched fields of waving barley 

Thrumming beneath the moon's heavy gaze

The moon urges me to dance

The wind calls,.

Beckoning to me

Within the fertile darkness of my soul

A leaden arrow has pierced my chill flesh

Yet still i rest alone

(I will wake when you find me)

Black hooves thunder through my head

A god's lonely cry lingers

within the music of fallen hooves 

Everything here is motionless

Even the wind has fled

Pale oleander weaves a path

I am paler

Mother reaps now in this bower of barren stalks

The silken spring dies within winter's icy grip

The maidens all laughed,

That last day

Gathering bouquets of dying flowers

Hades stormed through the fields 

Searching

How was i to know it was me he sought?

Never have I tasted the nectar of love's embrace

Nor the soothing tether that time gifts to lovers

The pomegranate seeds linger within the cup of my hand