Demeter Speaks: Dark Moon, Winter

When you are gone, I am alone. 

I feel I have lost my spirit.

I am an empty shell; remembering, yearning,

crying, wandering, searching, aging, dying.

How can I find the strength to live

till I hold you in my arms again?

She’s gone too long!

Something terrible has happened, I know!

My heart is broken!  I can’t eat or sleep.

I grow old!  I’ll die before she gets back!

I wish I could help her!  I must find her before it’s too late!

I can’t think of anything else except the danger she is in,

the pain she must feel.  My baby!  I let her go too soon!

She was so young, so innocent!

I should have prepared her better.

I feel so angry and so cheated!

I didn’t have her with me long enough.

I didn’t hold her close enough when she was here.

How could she be so cruel?

How can I live without her?

I am dying!

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018