Existentialist Pain

Loitering pain; existential in its core
Evicted; eradicated at child birth
From her core.
Self queries, examinations of the soul 
Replaced by sense of duty
For the community
And offsprings, she adores.
 
Existential (ist) angst left her core
Without so much as a goodbye!
Without a  farewell!
A feckless lover 
Would have treated her
Fair.
 
Now she pieces puzzles together
Of galaxies omniscient;
For her five year old
Now she sews rainbow buttons on
The hems of pink tutus
For her little girl. 
Now she talks about glittering mermaids, Rapunzel hair 
And velocity of planes!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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