hadesandpersephone
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She speaks to me in seafoam.
Born beautiful, she kissed my eyelids and gave me her love of everything.
Her fingertips are callused from centuries of knotting heartstrings.
Lucia Bonaccio
Dear Mother (A letter to Demeter)
Dear Mother,
I ate the pomegranate seeds not because I was famished
But because he gave me more than you could ever
Dark land ruled by an odd mix
Sailing through the clashing waves
Deep, past the River Styx
Further than Cerberus' Cave
There lies a princess of peace and torment
innocent among her narcissus garden
Wasn't raised by the gods
So I lowered myself
Give me some credit because I raised myself well
Give you some credit because you gave me hell
I grew from the ashes
I dont speak I yell
they told you i was taken.
stolen from my honey paradise
of flowers and sunshine,
dragged six feet under
and buried alive.
they told you i was forced.
As night falls I must return
Before I scare my mother silly
And yet I cannot pull myself away
From this coffee shop called "The Lilly"
Oh, how the city lights glitter
The wet pavement so bright
Persphone.
a rose in a garden of sunflowers,
lived at home,
until one day she didn't,
Hades.
the needle in the haystack,
the man of her dreams,
and her nightmares,
Catch quick a cold, succumb to a fever
Latch quick to a lover, create snowflakes in the ether
That's how winter came to be
She, a farmer's daughter in August
He, an executive in Necropolis
the Earth once asked its lover
what are humans made of?
same as you
replied the Girl
explain
said the Earth
i have iron in my blood,
oxygen in my lungs,
and salt in my tears,
The flowers always died in his presence.
He had only ever seen the bright and brilliant colors of meadows from a distance.
Never had he been able to feel the soft petals or waft the sweet scent of spring.
