Ocean Vuong

Do you really love me if you wouldn't eat and devour me?

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞. 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦-𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

Prayer to Persephone by Edina St. Vincent Millay

Be to her, Persephone,

All the things I might not be:

Take her head upon your knee.

She that was so proud and wild,

Flippant, arrogant and free,

She that had no need of me,

Is a little lonely child

Lost in Hell,—Persephone,

Take her head upon your knee:

Say to her, "My dear, my dear,

It is not so dreadful here"