Fourteen minutes was not enough
To touch the sky they needed time
Seconds passed quickly while they danced
As they moved to Orphic chant and rhyme

Zeus and Persephone- intertwined
In Hellenistic romance under Sun and Moon
On the table of Olympus dined
He feeds her grapes and dandelions

From Hades he rescues her each day
Soft hands pull her free from death
He kisses away webs of Alexander
And dresses her in robes of alabaster

The seconds pass quickly while they danced
The tune changes as does the wind itself
Passing from sorrow to sinful and back again
Seconds passing as the wind through leaves

Their pace quickens noticeably
Hounds approach from East and West
He holds her tight as she does he
The pressure mounts and leads to stress

Chariots pass drawn by horses of fire
He mourns the loss of time so dire
Draws her kisses to replace his ire
Kindled passion moving higher

The seconds pass quickly while they danced
Moved together in heliocentric romance
Eurydice passes and leaves another
Youthful lover in her place

Heavens shatter in a cascade of fierce emanations
He moves under her declarations
Cause and effort mightily won
The time has passed and they have none

He is Paris and she is Helen
Taken from Menelaus by fate
And passion and love unconquered
The time slips by vanquished from their side

The seconds pass quickly while they danced
1000 ships hold afloat their romance
Fleeting, Fleeting, Fleeting
Their hearts are beating

The lovers yield- time has left them alone with their heat
In the tempest of unfinished promises
Swirling in a sea of honest turmoil
Fourteen minutes was not enough

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