223. ‘I Know Where She Is’
‘I Know Where She Is’
Perhaps I should have been
more delicate,
but I could not see a mother
in so much grief.
She reminded me too much
of my own mother.
Demeter looked up
and for a moment,
I thought she would turn me
into ice with her gaze.
Instead, she got up
and moved towards me,
hands on my shoulders
as, wild-eyed, she shook me.
‘Where is she?’
Oh Hades…
What have you done?
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