A Tale of Two Gods

[BlueMoonRose]

This is a poem I wrote based off of Persephone and Hades, because it is my Greek Story! I wrote it originally for school and I would like to go back and fix a few things but this is what I have so far, so enjoy! (Some of it might be off and that is what I want to fix on, such as the title).

Out with her mother and her friends
A young Persephone swaying,
Moving to the beat of the breeze
In the flower patch she’s laying

With those six pomegranate seeds

Under the shade of old oak trees
A flower full of vanity,
Narcissus, sits wilting and waits
Twas driven to insanity

With those six pomegranate seeds

And for Persephone it baits
Across this flower she did come
And mesmerized by its beauty,
through its power she did succumb.

With those six pomegranate seeds

Down below sat his eminence
Almighty ruler of the dead,
in his heart, loneliness entrapped
to the surface he took to wed

With those six pomegranate seeds

At the surface he was quite rapt,
Gazing onto Demeters child
His heart ached with passionate lust
and with swiftness, he beguiled

With those six pomegranate seeds

Descending down through the earths crust
went Hades and his kidnapped love
and to the darkness they descend,
screaming was all heard from above.
With those six pomegranate seeds

To the Heavens the scream did sound,
Riled, Demeter went to search
for her lost daughter she did seek
she first checked under the black burch

With those six pomegranate seeds

Without her daughter life seemed bleak
for countless weeks she did wonder
the harvest turned somber and died
swiftly the ground went asunder

With those six pomegranate seeds

A harsh long winter had defied,
the Great Goddess of grain and earth
Changing her with times ancient wheel
A secret plan she will unearth.

With those six pomegranate seeds

Below she sat on heated steel,
Watching souls cross the river styx
not yet betrothed to her captor
feelings of love and hate eclipse

With those six pomegranate seeds

Stuck in a place without laughter,
Persephone waits to be saved,
after a while she grew weak
Like the grain, life is what she craved

With those six pomegranate seeds

Without hope she felt vastly bleak,
to which Hades came and offered,
six seeds from a wine colored fruit
from which she ate and hence, suffered.

With those six pomegranate seeds

Tricked into eating by the brute
for six months she is trapped with him
In Spring, she can see her mother
a beacon of hope, not so dim

With those six pomegranate seeds

Her hatred for him did smother,
Persephone became a queen,
her love for him instead transcends
side by side they rule, quite unseen

With those six pomegranate seeds