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Mar 15, 2009
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Through Psyche's Eyes #8 - Ultimate Despair
Venus......
This final task you set before me
Fraught with deadly traps,
Marks you as a totally implacable creature
That seeks indirectly to take my life from me.
My errand,
To retrieve from Proserpine
Divine beauty from the depths of Hades.
I only know of one path
To this dark underworld.
Death....
What choice have you given me?
I shall plunge to my death
From the heights of this cliff,
For Love's wings cannot save me....
I will taste of that,
Which this cruel goddess cannot.
This final task you set before me
Fraught with deadly traps,
Marks you as a totally implacable creature
That seeks indirectly to take my life from me.
My errand,
To retrieve from Proserpine
Divine beauty from the depths of Hades.
I only know of one path
To this dark underworld.
Death....
What choice have you given me?
I shall plunge to my death
From the heights of this cliff,
For Love's wings cannot save me....
I will taste of that,
Which this cruel goddess cannot.
— Blue_Halcyon, Mar 15, 2009
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