I Identify with Persephone

I identify with Persephone

I am a spring maiden at heart
Celebrating life’s sunshine and rainbows
A believer in growth and renewal
Optimistic and hopeful

I also hold a dread queen in my soul
Content to sit quietly in darkness
Observant and calculated
Unafraid of the shadows
Happy to don my crown
Glimmering with pomegranate seeds
The color of blood
To remind the foolish
I am not the one

-gws

Persephone

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Queen of the Underworld
Goddess of Spring
Wife to the Infernal King

Some call you victim
Bride without choice
Pomegranate seeds silenced your voice

But what a gift
The shadow and light
To be a queen of both dawn and midnight

By fate or by choice
You touch life and death
The cycle of life held in your breast

The symbol of rebirth
And compassionate ends
The Dread Queen with a soul garden to tend

A heart of creation
And eyes filled with fury
I honor your power in all of its glory

-gws