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Realms of Elsewhere

Roses grow at her passing as she walks in the shadows
A cool wind blows from the river below
The gentle breeze blowing through raven hair
As the spirits bow at her feet
Worms crawling in the flesh under what they wear

Persephone, Queen of the Underworld
Secretly longing for her husband
Never there in realms of elsewhere

Golden but tarnished, he sits upon his shadow throne
Judgment, his creed in his kingdom of bone
His loneliness untold in the legends
As the spirits bow at his feet
Longs for the touch of beauty unimagined

He is Hades, King of the Underworld
Secretly longing for her cold touch
Never there in realms of elsewhere

�Light a candle, my love
In the deepest shadows
A beacon of hope
As Kokytos,
The river of tears overflow�

A story of abduction
And forsaken seductions
Made from a irate mother
Hid beneath the covers
In the day�s dying light
Entered the lord of night
Took Persephone�s hand
And frolicked under moons
Reserved for Zeus himself

And when those wails and moans come
Underworld�s light eclipses the sun
Waiting for the touch of lover�s embrace
In marble columns their hearts encased

The helm of darkness cannot hide his shameful sorrow
As Hades sits and waits for the morrow
Persephone lingers for winter come
To taste the pomegranate juice
Hoping her lord of the dead will hear her song

�Light a candle, my love
In the deepest shadows
A beacon of hope
As Kokytos,
The river of tears overflow�

And when those seasons at last
Flutter and die as they pass
The pangs of two hearts entwined
The blurring of the lines
Joining of dusk and dawn
Secret singing of fawns
Watching the reunion
The easing of the doom
He takes her hand once more

And when those wails and moans come
Underworld�s light eclipses the sun
In throes in the touch of lover�s embrace
Break the columns where their hearts encased