Poetry

Sunday 21 January 2024

Demeter's daughter

 What became of Demeter's daughter?

She spent half the year down under

Married to a fella named Bruce


I tried to console our mother

But she was too far gone

In sadness over her loss

To manage the farm

and all of the animals ran loose


I brought her flowers from the cave mouth

And planted new oak trees there

Yet the Prince of darkness kept my sister

Down in his underground lair 


My mother Demeter was wandering

Lost in the land she had known

Who could have stolen her compass

Who could have left her alone?


We all eat of the fruit we aren't meant to

We all fall at temptations mouth

So who is the one who torments you?

Why do the swallows fly south ?

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