The Bride of Darkness

My Child Queen of the Dead no more your eyes God-like

The Sun robed thee in his day Persephone

Embraced in your arms

The Life that had descended now re-arise empowered by the Sun

So mighty was the mother's childless cry

She asked the waves that moan how the world can be so cruel

Do you cry for my child?

And then the voices came saying

We know not we know not why we cry

And so the shadow wails

My quick tears kill the flower

My ravings hush the bird

And lost in grief I fail to send

My gift to helpless man

Rain-rotted dead grain

The pale Sun sets before his time

And I am ill-content with those who dare to say

My fate’s beyond the Fates

The Bright and the Dark have sworn that

I, the child of thee the Power

Who lifts her buried life to bloom

Should be for evermore

The Bride of Darkness

The reaper sees me far away

And now the gleam of dawn upon the threshing floor

Can the dark lord love the Sun

And will the shadows die

Extinguish hateful fires along the fields of Asphodel

Death, not peace, comes easily

The spirit needs release

The souls of men

Who grew beyond

And made themselves

As Gods

Against the fear

Of Death and Hell

They shall prevail

I shall prevail