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The Curse of Persephone

As the day bleeds into nightfall and the moon starts to shine A woman sits by the creek in a forest full of pines Surrounded by the ravenous wolves yearning for her flesh She stares at the beast who keeps her chained for the pack Hoping that one day she would take back her dignity She offers herself every night to the monsters who sold their morality When the night is dark and the wolves all asleep She looks down in the water and laughs at her grief Wondering how the beauty turned out to be her enemy Almost as if it was the curse of Persephonie As in the box of Pandora, there's one thing that forever lives  Hidden deep inside her box-like heart is the hope to change her destiny  Clinging to this hidden gem, she can still endure countless miseries  But how beautiful the world is outside, she keeps having reveries And as long as she lives, she will hold on To the dreams of her past that still keep her strong And on a sto...

A Winding Stairway

Away from the maddening crowd where the human noise ends Lies a winding stairway that no one ever descends Visible to all, yet hard to spot It leads to a place that demons sought Deep into the woods, away from sight There lives a woman who dances in the night And on the moonlit nights, she dances with a ghost Her shamanism entices spirits from the coast No one knows her origin and the cause Neither she's a witch nor she's an ogre And listening to her soulful melodies Countless men have given in to the felonies Every single man who comes in her sight Turning into a vicious sod, he either kills or he dies - Anirudh Bhardwaj