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
Ways of Seduction
Masquerading as Love
– perfect Prey
For the rapacious
Wolf of Desire---
The Eagle of
Transformation
In your long gold
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
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