Epic [Part II]

[ORPHEUS]

Heavy and hard is the heart of the king

King of iron, king of steel

The heart of the king loves everything

Like the hammer loves the nail

But the heart of a man is a simple one

Small and soft, flesh and blood

And all that it loves is a woman

A woman is all that it loves

And Hades is king of the scythe and the sword

He covers the world in the color of rust

He scrapes the sky and scars the earth

And he comes down heavy and hard on us

But even that hardest of hearts unhardened

Suddenly, when he saw her there

Persephone in her mother’s garden

Sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair

The smell of the flowers she held in her hand

And the pollen that fell from her fingertips

And suddenly Hades was only a man

With a taste of nectar upon his lips, singing:

La la la la la la la…