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Persephone's Eternal Rest

June 3, 2024
By Student_Author1000 BRONZE, Clinton, Massachusetts
Student_Author1000 BRONZE, Clinton, Massachusetts
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The soul rises like a speck of dust 

in a sunbeam

It moves through an invisible cloth

separating space and time 

Where other dimensions coexist between

Then others beyond


In life there is

A rock-heavy flower bouquet 

to cling to, 

Till the strong grasp agonizes, 

Her palms bleed


Pleading for an end 

But pain has no memory

It can’t recollect when it was not

It is opened to receive new waves of pain

Becoming the norm


In death 

time doesn't-pass

It decays,

It destroys

But she knew her legacy 

would remain intact


In life, she let go of the flowers

And held the machine of all knowledge

so the grave had to hinder her


In death, from above she is forced 

to watch a corpse 

That wasted the potential of the flesh

Its God-given purpose left unfulfilled


But the soul rises pleased

Emitting a light

that fogs everything the naked eye once saw


The pupils allow only

Fragments of our world capable of overshining 

The soul

To pass through them


The grave fades

She finally sees


Most purely, 

Entirely,

For all Eternity



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