Climbing

Deals are done down in the dark and she’s set
Free by Proserpine
“Keep on looking straight ahead
And go on the upwards climb
Out from Hades
Deepening gloom
Get away and
Don’t look back ”-
Creatures of the
Dismal light
Souls wing by in
Jagged flight
Screech and gibber
Mist and night
Through the lanes they
Climbed and Clung
Finally they see a glint
Head towards the
Blessed sun
Upwards climbing
One by one
Then just then – when there is only
One more step for them to take
Something makes him
Turn and look

At his wife , Eurydice – so
Why is this ? and

Doesn’t he
Trust the gods to keep their word ?

Trust that she has followed him or
Did he – in the final step

Get cold feet ? – Eternity
With one who had been dragged from death – It

Had seemed simple – but did he
Reel at the enormity ?

And could he sentence both of them to this ?
A sudden thought that what you wish

Or think you wish may come to be
The worst of all realities

Was there a catch ? he didn’t know
He panicked – and with backwards look –

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