Secrets

A lady of a certain age whose life you think you really know she lives her life with secrets and some of these appear below On the surface she is brusque and rather bumptious, never smiles but deep inside her broken heart cannot be reconciled Her true love died when she was young, so cruelly taken away He was murdered by a psychopath on a beautiful summer day Could not accept that he had gone her life came to a standstill She built a wall around herself, as her soul cascaded downhill Her bottom drawer was overflowing full of her wedding trousseau So crazed with grief, could not let go, she created a ghoulish tableau The world saw her as a grumpy old dear, living alone; she was no one to fear Down in her cellar an elderly fella, insane, inane, no one knew he was here Imprisoned all those years ago she vowed she’d never let him go, The psychopath he took an axe and killed the man that she’d loved so Each day he survives barely alive; chained like an animal no life in his eyes Each day she watches, no feelings inside, struggling to keep this monster alive Upstairs a body expertly embalmed, her lover, her soulmate, appears unharmed Years go by there’s no solution, for what she has done there will be retribution Now living a life full of secrets and lies, so gruesome she cannot reveal Until her time comes and she joins her beloved, such images she must conceal 25th December 2018 Contest: Secrets Sponsor: Faraz Ajmal 5th placement Jan19 2020 Sponsor: Brian Strand 1st placement Contest: Hello darkness my old friend Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco 4th November 2020