Kore

by xoxShorteexox   Dec 8, 2011


In my early years of life, I wanted taken prisoner by Hades,
he dragged me into the Underworld to be his future wife,
Hades already had my father's approval or the ruler of Gods,
my mother so unaware of what happened to her precious one.

Searching for nine days for signs of where I'd gone to,
with no success of anyone helping her with their knowledge,
until the Sun God told her of my whereabouts in the Underworld,
my mother was so pained and angered by this chain of events.

She stopped using her gift of fertility for mankinds crops,
my father was forced to given into my mother's grieving,
commanding Hades to set me free from his horrid land,
only to find out food had bound me to the unholy place.

Compromised into a life that I'd not chosen for myself,
allowed to spend two-thirds of a year by my mother's side,
forced to live the other one third in the Land of the Dead,
creating the growing seasons mankind knows to be.

Winter was created by the sorrow of my mother,
nothing is allowed to grow when she's in pain,
the moment I reappear by her side for my stay,
flowers bloom and flourish until my next absence.

Kore/Persephone; she has many names, but she's Hades wife who was forced into the Underworld. She's now queen of the dead with the approval of Zeus to allow Hades to take her into the Underworld for the intention of making her his bride.

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  • 12 years ago

    by TJ Arizona Eagle

    Well done and well researched. I really like the whole concept of the mythical