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The queen of the underworld wakes beside him
still wrapped in the musk of last night's passion.
She will soon leave, for it is finally spring
and she must be there in a timely fashion.
This is hard for him, for she is his compulsion --
her heart is breaking, like shattered glass,
but this too, however painful, will soon pass.
As they lay together, he breathes her in,
inhaling, exhaling, and trying to remember.
He can smell the sunlight on her skin,
bringing back memories of their September,
but now she leaves him nothing but embers.
She looks upon her love with sadness
wishing she could end all this madness.
Her mother arrives, and is utterly disgusted.
She views her son-in-law with no empathy.
He knows this; he knows he is not trusted.
Persephone kisses him with sympathy;
her mother looks at it as filthy.
She now, forcefully, leaves behind her lover,
now following her overbearing mother.
-Saedah Coello
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Persephone's Curse
RomancePersephone was not dead. He had waited so long. Hoped so long. And finally Hades had proof that his love was truly not dead. But at what cost? Thea does not know what to make of the nightmare she had the first night she slept in her new dorm. Neit...
