ART HISTORY ADVENT CALENDAR - DAY 9

 Week of Love

9th of December - Persephone

I am caught between two loves: I am

my mother's daughter, but also my husband's wife.

I spend half the year with each of them.

I love them both equally,

half a year under the Sun,

half a year in the Underworld.

After all, Mum, when I disappeared

you were worried so sick

that the whole Earth grew cold and barren.

And you, my lord,

though you spirited me away by force

into your dark realm,

I gradually grew to love you as a wife and Queen.

I am forever caught between two worlds:

my mother's daughter, but also my husband's wife.

This is me. Persephone.