I the Mirror - With a Major Contribution By Joseph May - Dramatic Free Verse
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I dedicate this poem to all my brothers and sisters who are experiencing horrific pain. My heart is with you. I pray for you everyday and I love you unconditionally. Always, armand.
December 26 I am adding this note:
I am a positive person, I believe it is my love of life, it's sheer joy, how I love the people that are in any way in my life...it is my exuberance for life that creates my fear for my child that is presently walking a tightrope without a net.
This dark write comes from the fear that I live every moment of my present life. I love my daughters deeper than the word it self could ever represent. Thank You.
Listen to poem:
an impression of the world
stands before me
Left is right, and right is wrong,
and the mirror reflects a melancholy song.
i the mirror
not
the babbling brook,
or
the rippled river
whose images tell harmless lies.
i
the mirror,
who was once held in the
weak, shivering, hands of a life nearing its end
now lay
on broken, crushed bones, crumbs
and i
one thousand shards
the cracks
the jaded moments of my life.
i
an unintended semblance in the raging waters
crashing against the killing rocks of the rushing falls.
never utter the curse
"it can't get any worse"
the serpent swallows the swollen cow,
swallowed - the farmer's wife,
swallowed - her son,
swallowed - the thorny toad,
the black widow spider devours them all!
i the empty frame
the bits and bites of carpenter ants.
my world
a perverse facade
of
what should of been
of
what
is
of
what
was
or of
what? WHAT?
less?
i guess.
NEVER utter the curse
"it can't get any worse"
whose voice
will bring me peace,
whose rapier
will deliver me,
who will
burn my body whole
or
dig me a deep hole
or
throw me void of soul
into
the waters of the screaming ocean
who herself dies a slow painful death.
Dec 20 2015
armand
with a major contribution by
Joseph May
Copyright © Maurice Yvonne | Year Posted 2015
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