Reflections of Love and Mercy

  

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Reflections of Love and Mercy

now that I have caught sight

of the other side of the mirror

where someone looks back

with pure love, and brown eyes clearer

a tenderness in reflection

that needs no description

other than "I'll be right back"

while he slips on old slacks

and a jacket over pajamas

sticks bare feet into old boots

to go out into the frigid night

and into the cold slant of ice


I hear the  hammer of the engine

then a cold grinding sound begins

and the splashing of rubber tires

rolling down the gravel driveway

on wind beaten wings that fly

on a mission to the pharmacy

to buy me scarlet syrup

to calm a coughing fury


a love with gentle mercy

reflected once again, I see


it needs no contemplation

of vows not forsaken

(thank God! ... he is taken!) 

he's the man that I married



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For Gail's Contest: "Reflections of Love"  3/4/13