Ebb and Flow
Persephone and Hades
Someone must tend the embers below
even if it’s just for an hour
There’s no escaping this ebb and this flow
Just like the ocean, to and fro
a necessary balance of power
Someone must tend the embers below
What good is room if you don’t use it to grow?
You may as well ask a flower
There’s no escaping this ebb and this flow
All of the things you think that you know
which sweet morsels turned out to be sour?
Someone must tend the embers below
How much is real, how much for show,
building your house of cards into a tower
There’s no escaping this ebb and this flow
It’s not wise to stay past time to go,
even if it’s just for an hour
Someone must tend the embers below
There’s no escaping this ebb and this flow
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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