Literature
We Women
We women, we know bitterness.
Mythology says that hunger bound Persephone to the underworld.
She stole pomegranate seeds in secret.
Starving, she stuffed them into her mouth,
burst the sweet fruit between her teeth
in order to survive,
while Hades, insatiable for her sweetness,
claimed ownership of what he had stolen.
We know innocence.
Five year old smiles and skin kissed only by the sun
It is said that Persephone was picking wildflowers in an open field
before she was stolen
We know the weight of “befores”
The heaviness of “afters”
We women, we know loss.
Demeter’s broken heart.
We are all too familiar with v
