Velvet underworld
pomegranate red bed
flows wetness Persephone,
Amniotic waters
Eros and Thantos
join to form such ecstasy.
Persephone's grove,
there flower-strewn body
dwells in blood shafts of setting sun,
abyss's procrustean ritual,
Under black poplars,
from Hades vestibule,
she calls, Happy and blessed one,
thou shalt be god instead of mortal." *
The sins of the flesh
do not matter to her,
of them she need not pretend,
She believes the death
of the tomb to the womb,
shadows' darkness is her friend.
Necropolis' flesh
ride her erotic bat,
destruction of resurrection
naked fire fear, asphodel grows here.
Orphic music plays,
narcissus darkly near,
faith afraid, hot sensation,
goddess of the blessed dead sees you clear.
*Quote taken from Orphic mystery school text;
part of a prayer to "Holy Persephone".
