Persephone

Dark and black this cycle turns

With each new breath deaths fire burns

Descending down into the deep

All souls within this prison keep

This place of blackened inner space

The turmoil of this human race

The inner mind in horror makes

Its destiny where death awaits

Into the darkened mirror gaze

And see life in this endless maze

Of riddles, games and glazing eyes

The truths that tongues twist into lies

Persephone Great Goddess dark

Black as night her witches art

The bringer in of death embrace

And see her shadow on each face

For tis she who knows the rule

That what you do comes back to you

Such choices you do baleful make

When such disastrous waves do brake

Upon this land of light and life

There does here hide much pain and strife

Deeply hidden, silent kept

In Hades great and darkened net

Underneath dark fortress hold

The keys of wisdom ages old

Do you dare to take a peek

Within these shadows dark and deep?

Tis here the soul in torment lies

Hidden from most human eyes

Who cannot look into the truth

Or know the deepest darkest roots

Of wisdom this tree here does stand

Underneath this tortured land

If only one soul dared to see

The way that things could truly be

Persephone Great Goddess old

Raven haired, your eyes behold

The human race in tragedy

And all life's passing casualties

Down in mother earths abode

Gaia's darkest caverns cold

You sit and wait in sorrow there

For those above all unaware

Who will find their way to you

On twisted darkened pathways true

To rectify this horrific plight

On earth's darkest deadly nights

The dark black Goddess grieves alone

For such souls who've lost their own

True God given lightened paths

Or gifted, healing helping hands

Such small simplicities these things

Now lost forever to these beings

Who must now purge their demons under

Trampling steeds with feet of thunder

Ears flat back and reddened eyes

Nostrils flaring flaming fire

Uncontrolled their rage and plunder

Onward Hades Horses, black with murder

All demons punished in the fire

Where Hades chasms spiral

Ever downward, heated burning

Purgatory onward churning

Merciless is justice dealt

Upon each demon here is felt

The burning pain of past regrets

Or all life's loss and cold neglect

For all the times one turned each cheek

Away from the suffering of the meek

Or for the shame of lies once told

The loneliness of bitter cold

Persephone Great Goddess deep

Into deep and gentle sleep

Guide us onward in this dark

To seek the light, the cosmic spark

After torment deeply felt

When on the cavern floor there knelt

The demons grieving in the dark

Who have recognized the inner heart

And in the spring may deign to rise

Such demons upward to the skies

Away from Hades fiery depths

Which have burned off life's regrets

The seed now planted underground

The sacred grain of truth is found

Demeter's secrets ages old

Thy mother's fertile fruits unfold

Persephone Great Goddess young

From underground thy form has sprung

Bringing new and lighter hope

To Mother Earth's unruly folk

Until the winter once again

Will find and call and pull you in

Into that dark and lonely place

Where Hades then will hide your face

My queen of Spring and Night embrace

The world soul, this human race

Its light and shadow here unite

To rectify this earthly plight

In balance here between the places

Of life and death and middle spaces

The threshold of the misty dale

The windings of the way unveil

In truth and light your secrets there

And all who see now are aware

Persephone Great Goddess live

And teach all taking souls to give.

PersephoneRC

(In memory of 9/11)