50 Words For Poe: Prodigal
"50 Words for Poe: Prodigal"
Homeward bound
Prodigal hides his eyes
from the prying
Pride stops his soul
from crying
Sun burns his
blue eyes blind
Too long in the long shadows
a sunshineless cage blue sky denied
He has lost the sunshine in his smile
He has lost the sunshine in his eyes
Lost time burns behind his eyes
In his mind a child always cries
A Thursday bus ride to airport
for a small plane ride in a pale blue sky
there ensues an air-wave exchange
that doesn’t fly, the kid’s walking barefoot
on egg-shells again flip-side
on a tight rope spitting sharp nine-inch nails
angry, sad as hell-in-a-hand basket, all high-wired
He hears and feels the abrupt denial
a phone call in between flights
between father and the
swift rebuttal of the lost child
The Prodigal’s child turns her back
hangs up and texts Flipping The Bird sign
On the wrong side of today
The Father cries his blue eyes blind
Homeward bound
Prodigal hides his eyes
from the prying
Pride stops his soul
from crying
Sucks it in
That’s what you do on the inside
How long will the child deny
what’s left of his heart
they served and fried
Sunny side down to bleed
Beige Pulp left on the roadside
In fairness the child
can cry as much as the child needs to cry
Let her cry a dam dry
The child is angry
The child cries
He swallows his hurt he swallows his pride
Bides his remaining time outside of the child inside
Love set free from the caged heart cries
Free but now denied after all this time by closed-shop child
The watcher reads his mind
The watcher sees Her child
The child reads her mother
The child reads her father
Cries her blue heart blind
Flight departs at 3
Flight arrives at 5
A phone call between
The Two Bee Hives
The little one’s become a real spitfire
Prodigal now set free
The broken son arrives
Sunshine missing from his
blue-eyes burned blind
Flight departs at 3
Flight arrives at 5
There is still time.
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
g/s
https://youtu.be/xH7URVBpFV4
Congregation/Low
“LOVE is the brightest star in life's darkest skies.”
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls: the most massive characters are seared with scars"
https://youtu.be/YG0NWxWSH_o
Blackbird/Beatles
“amor vincit omnia”
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2019
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