Demeter Cries

DEMETER CRIES Sun in center and white wings around The hundred florae in one stem, cheated; My daughter never knew t’was him. The fragrance was sweet but toxic. His chariot stood with black steed. And he took her away to hell. Long nine days I got killed by inches! “Why have you done this to my daughter?” “Hades wanted to marry her”, Zeus with no shame. She burns in that hell guarded by hellhounds. She whispers to the air to save her, I, her mother with a roiled heart stands, in the field. No one turns to my wailing; I snivel day and night. My tears have made the earth stiff and barren, And the monster in me showed up.