First date, forced and bad.

Drove her in his black chariot,

Didn't talk at all, didn't like him at all.

 

Second date, forced and awkward.

Dinner at his black mansion,

Talked a little. Annoyed each other a little more.

He has a cute dog though,

Three times smarter than most, too.

 

They are two sides of the same coin.

She helps new entrepreneurs,

He ends their fully-flowered companies.

She's bright and happy,

He's dark and gloomy.

 

Third date, different and new.

Took her on a tour of the company.

Not what she thought.

He doesn't destroy fully-flowered companies,

But gives a second chance to struggling ones.

She's not sure now…

 

Fourth date, different and nice.

He shows her his outreach program,

For those with past struggles and wrongs.

Sisyphus clearing the rocks from a field

And Tantalus picking fruit in an orchard.

Three old Kindly Ones,

Helping all of them with their tasks.

She sees him differently now.

Dark, but with a hidden light.

Gloomy, but content with his life.

She knows what she feels,

And what she's beginning to feel as well.

 

Fifth date, nice and interesting.

A visit to a homeless shelter he's opened,

Helping those who have nowhere to go,

People that life has neither been too kind

Nor too wicked towards,

An endless mass who have lost themselves.

He does what he can,

But it's never enough.

She feels the opposite

Of what she felt at first for him.

She feels the opposite of hate and distaste.

 

Sixth date, beautiful and refreshing.

Off to his beautiful country club.

Truly a heaven on Earth,

Where everyone is happy and smiling,

Including him.

He knows everyone,

And everyone knows him.

A beautiful dinner before them,

But she wasn't feeling hungry.

She was feeling something else

For this man who was once thought

Dark and gloomy,

But she knows now,

He's bright in his own way

He's happy in his own way,

And she loves him and his world.

 

Final date, never happens.

Hermes, a man of many talents,

Hired by a jealous mother

To bring her daughter home.

She goes, forced to leave,

Taken away from the world she wanted to live in

And the man she wants to be with.

She cries in her mother's home,

The home she's lived in all her life,

The home to which she once yearned to return.

 

But he comes! He comes in that black car.

The one that he took her in

On their first date.

He argues with all in his way,

Saying she belongs to him

And he to her,

And not even his Almighty CEO brother, Zeus,

Nor her controlling landowning mother, Demeter,

Can deny them each other!

 

He makes it to her room,

And, with all the world to see,

He gets down on one knee.

Hades presents to Persephone a diamond ring

With three tiny rubies on each side,

Red as pomegranate seeds.

She knows it's the only way to be with him,

Knows what it will entail,

Knows that, in the end, she doesn't care,

As long as she's with him in his world.

 

She's no longer wants to be known as a little girl

And someone who is seen as minor.

She wants to help him run his company,

Helping those who have lost their way in the darkness.

Persephone accepted the six rubies,

And they are stronger and happier together.

Stronger and happier than most.

Leading their company,

One that no one wanted to lead.

One that many thought was terrible,

But one that they made beautiful.