Friday, March 24, 2017

THE JEALOUS WIDOW


           His childhood, long gone now pressed between the folds of some ancient text. He conveys his condition looking out over the bough as the cruel frigid sea twist reddens his pale cheeks. He is distressed by his contrast desires, how can he both hate his mistress while longing for the bounty of God’s bedewed creatures hidden within her cold blue bosom.



            She, at home remembering the very moment he, the watcher of her emotions departed. Needing him to stay and defend the hearth. The spoilt stench of his avoidance still adorned the air just beyond her tender nose. He would withdraw, as before into nothingness, leaving her to fend the harshness alone. So, like the docile and uncertain child longing for her mother’s reassuring hand she places her soft foot upon the path. Calm within her warm soul of her wise choice.



            The cold wet storm brutally scrapes at her window frame. She knows he is unsecure and at the clemency of the sea. Jealous of how she, the sea calls to her lover even when his feet are dry and The fastened to her bedroom floorboards. She knows that he could never truly belong to her. As she surveys the far away waves tossing aside long lost, and soulless vessels. She secerns that he soon will grace her entranceway again.


-Johnny V.

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