Persephone

I'm not done
It's not over
until I'm carrion

On the battlefield
with a motherly Valkyrie
tending my wounds

I am
The shield maiden
The commander in this war

but my ship
is sinking faster
than I can bail out tears

I am
as fragile as a lamb
with a sword made of glass

It shatters
when I hit my demons
and the sky falls down

I must be stronger
with broad shoulders, like Atlas
But I am Persephone

Dragged off
to the underworld
I am quick to nibble the seeds

My destruction
and my pomegranate teeth
are all the colour red