A/N: This is a poem from Persephone's point of view. I'm actually doing a play- Polaroid Stories at my school- Modern Greek myths and play Persephone so I thought I'd get into the characters mind. Sorry for the non-original title, I'm new at this. Please R&R. Thanks.
Disclaimer: I do not own this character. She belongs to Greece, her homeland, and origin of creation. I also do not own Polaroid Stories. (I don't know if I have to put that, but I did.)
Persephone
I am the Queen of the dead
All my joy has disappeared
Down here in my underworld
It is hard to remember the light
The wonderful moments of my childhood
Gone to a different world
How strange my life is now
Alien to my youth
My days of blossoming, growing have vanished
Gone with the sunlight
Now my heart turns cold
I do not want to feel the sorrow
So I must not feel at all
There is no pity for the dead
And all mortals must die one day
But here I am, eternal and immortal
One day is much like the last
All full of coldness, darkness
Until the day when I return to the surface
When my heart can melt
Where feeling enters my blood
A time when I can dream
It is like before the pomegranate
Like being free, full of joy
The heat and love of sunshine
My mother's arms surrounding, embracing me
All this I love
I feel like two people
One of the darkness and one of light
Torn apart by my own foolish choice
If it hadn't been for those six seeds
I would be free of this strange joint custody
How am I to live for half a year
Only to disappear and die for the next half
A vicious cycle, tuned to a swift timer
If only Zeus had been kind
If only Hades would let me go
If only I hadn't eaten the fruit of the dead
This is my life for all eternity
For all time, darkness to light
On and on
My heart freezing and thawing
Feeling nothing but cold then feeling everything
The daughter to Goddess of the growing earth
The Queen to God of the dead
What am I really
I belong only to me now
Not to life, not to death
But some screwed limbo with no way out
This is my life, my immortality
So I will live it
Suffering consequences I had not foreseen
Till all the Earth crumbles
And the immortals fall
This is my destiny forevermore