The Running of Persephone

Little Kore

Little Persephone above

Gifted with flowers and life

Always wondering through the fields

Always at first light

She played in the grove with the nymphs and the trees

She wasn't aware of what he could see

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King Hades below

Bewitched by her beauty

He had to have her for his own

He had found his queen

He devised a plan for her to see

By abduction or free will she was his ruler to be

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Thought to be ensnared by his trap he took her away

But King Hades had fallen for hers instead

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Little Persephone above

Always watched, always controlled

Never alone

She took this opportunity and seized it

To the underworld she went with a smile on her face

She was a queen of her own freewill

She craved her freedom and so she took it

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King Hades and Queen Persephone

With six pomegranate seeds she sealed her fate

Rulers of the Underworld

By her choice and her choice alone

"She smiled sickly sweet as the fruit juice seeped from her lips."