Hekate shines her light

To guide my steps by Sun’s outcast might.

Small steps descend to mend my way

To the debts given to them, I repay.

With my body, now heart

Oh, to love a God to start.

The end, thus the beginning, then the end — descend

So my will must bend.

For love. For sorrow. For loss.

To pay the keeper at Time’s heavy cost.

So descend my love, descend.

And by that begin, again.

For life. For love. For adventure. Return.

Reunited as the wheel turns.

Descend, my love, descend. Begin, again!

Till morning end, till then.

I will be yours and you be mine.

My love, its will, comes time.

So thus, this curse, our souls are bind.

By the words, “Thy will is thine.”

Homer. (c. 7th century BCE). Homeric Hymn to Demeter  

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