Broken Hearted Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

Persephone - between light and darkness -
Swallowed to the underworld by Hades
Or defiled by her serpent overlord Zeus -
Was left the doubting mother of Zagreus

The beautiful boy child of the gods.

When the Titans consumed the loathed child
Only the beating sputtering heart remained
But the imprint of those barbarous, wild
Ancient flesh-eating savages was retained

And the heart became the embryo of life -
A bloody remnant culturing mankind
Rescued and implanted in the divine:
Barbarity and purity come to term with strife.

From that birth and death, came good and evil
Its heartbreak left to reconcile the devil.