PERSEPHONE.

Thrown from daylight delight into a kingdom that was a caricature of life, death, and limbo.
Mother wept; sweet spring turned to bitter winter, fragrant green to gray ashes.
Apollo never showed his face.
Zeus roared in vexation.
Poseidon left the gate of Charybdis unguarded, and Scylla was let loose.
Artemis slit her wrists.
Ares pounded his drums.
Dionysus poisoned the grapes.
Hera shed her feathers.
Vulcan sang dirge after dirge of and in sorrow.
Gaea tortured herself.
Persephone, child of Demeter, had been kidnapped.