Persephone Embracing Hades

as I sink into the earth

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yesterday , i  was the morning
dew on the petal and
songbirds greeting a wakening world
and as careless as fog at daybreak 

i was oranges and yellows and a
thousand shades of red
i was sunlight on endless fields of gold 
and sunlight through falling water 
and sunlight streaming through canopies 
of trembling eucalyptus and seething clover

i have been asleep,
drowsing through the movement 
around me and in me
while a river of purple flowed beneath my feet
and blues poured from my mouth and from 
my slumbering eyes

somehow, 
i have never been the soil

now, as i sink into the earth
and abandon the sun
as  night envelopes, i become shadow
as shapes disintegrate, i become decay
now, i am the the mulch of an unremarkable history

I am a dung heap, a confusion, 
a living waste depot,
a teeming mass of inscrutable hunger
masked as chaos,
a sunken vessel filled with the remnants of centuries 

today
i am the womb of tomorrow