5 Men
Blue Overtone Eagle
Song of Persephone*
Lord of the
Underworld---
You captured me,
abducted
Overwhelmed and took
me down---
Down to Darkness and
Chaos
Down to the Soul of
Night
Down to your Kingdom
below us
Down where there is low
Light
To the Land of the
Dead---
Shades of long ago
and might-have-been
Where Obsessions
rule--- Ghosts live
Old Sins revive and
breathe again---
Ignorant was I in Arts of Seduction
Masquerading as Love---perfect
Prey
For the rapacious
Wolf of Desire---
The Eagle of
Transformation
In your long golden Chariot
You came for me
inevitably---
Now I am Queen of
the Underworld
Now I am Priestess
of Mystery---
When Innocence is
Violence bound
Then is a Maiden
lost---
And there a Myth is
found.
*Persephone is Demeter’s daughter,
abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and forced to stay with him for four
months of the year.
©Kleomichele Leeds
