“DEMETER'S PRAYER TO HADES

This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge.

To understand each desire and its edge, to know we are responsible for the lives we change. No faith comes without cost, no one believes without dying.

Now for the first time

I see clearly the trail you planted, what ground opened to waste, though you dreamed a wealth of flowers.

There are no curses, only mirrors

held up to the souls of gods and mortals.

And so I give up this fate, too.

Believe in yourself,

go ahead -see where it gets you.”

~Rita Dove https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/38445/demeters-prayer-to-hades

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