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Beginning of a Child

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By Alya Barker
| The Strand
Sing to me, oh Muse of a child so cherished in her world set to perish, Hades’ eyes dark and bruised. He watches, weeping, ignoring the man who stands still on black sand, her eyes closed, sleeping. Iron tears from a lyre sung — a lonely breath a time to come — shed for her, who has lost her sun. Her skin stays warm in her mother’s cooling sheets. This last time she feels her heat, with tomorrow’s wake, forlorn. Greeted by Charon, he cannot look her way — for the tears of Hades’ dismay.
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