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and fair of face

was our Dawn.

 

With hair of spun silk

whose melodious chimes did ring

as she danced on nimble fieet

after her moon.

 

No call could stop her

and no sound warned her

of the danger swiftly rushing

straight towards our door.

 

A squelch of tires

a single gasp

left our Dawn

protraste in Death's grasp.

 

Not a tear did well in Hade's 1 eyes

as Persephone 2 left for the skies

but for the passing of our Dawn

his tears truly fell.

 

Flashes of blue and red arived

casting forth an erie light

marking death and passing

on this crimson blight.

 

They need not have appeared

these hovering moths to the flame

for that unwelcome guest

whose name be death

had stolen our morning light.

 

The beating hearts

of the gazors-on

brought to our ears

no sweet chimes

only a deep and sorrowful knell.

 

It rose around us

rising and receding

like the ocean's wave

trapping us beneath its fase calm.

 

Anger and despair filled the evening

chasing away the sun

providing a blanket to cover

the sorrid truths we beheld.

 

No sooner had the darkness fell

then the fiendish Haiti 3 moved forward

spinning his pitiful tale

of how there was no way to ward.

 

And from the crowd

a horrified, indignant howl roared

hairs all rose on end at the sound

the sound of anger and one who is scorned.

 

With a furtive glance

his steps he did retrace

taking him into a Mantis stance 4

though there was no sword or mace.

 

There he stood

spotted with the crimson stain 5

and though he tried

the spot would there remain.

 

Their hungry eyes filled the night

naked claws slashed and tore

as if by their own might

thy could erase what had been done.

 

There it ran, this drink of life 

down the streets and to our door

taken from he who'd caused us strife

whose life would be no more.

 

With their Bachus 6 thirsts sated

and the destinys of these two sealed

to their homes they crept

their dreams a bitter sweet prelude

to an everlasting life, tainted.

 

And our fair Dawn where may she lay?

Forgotten in her coffin of asphault

alogside her murder, her saviour

whose harsh lesson she had been taught.

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This is just another poem I wrote while in Geometry class. I swear math has the weirdest affects on me. And now an explanation of the allusions made:

1. Hades- Greek God of dead, underworld. Zeus forces Hades to allow Persephone to retun to earth for six months, this causes summer. It is said that though he was said, he did not shed a tear.

2. Persephone- Wife of  Hades, daughter of Hestia.

3. Haiti- Norse wolf of legend. It is said that if he or his brother Skoll ever catch the moon and the sun the world will come to an end.

4. Mantis Stance- A move used and taught in self-defense.

5. Crimson Stain- The blood that stained Lady Macbeth's hand.

6. Bacchus- Greek God of wine, also rumored to be the cause of Vampres.