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Write a poem with the beginning line....I sat down by the river Styx.
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butlersteph in Poetry & Free Verse

I sat down by the river Styx

And listened to the rain

Persephone held for me a cup

And in it all my pain

I stared into her jaden eyes

Having taken my last breath

Into the river she pours the cup

I know at last my death

Fate itself has brought me here

To set upon these shores

Given a guide to offer grace

Heart ceased but life restored

I’ll enter now the afterworld

Free of every grievous ache

The cup poured out and spirit clean

Persephone my soul does take.