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 in the midst 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
