The Memory of a Bygone Lady
—Before the spirit memorial of a man’s departed wife—
you were the lonely woman who long waited for
the daybreak sun to rise from the other side of the horizon
dark and gray; however, day came much too late, and therefore,
though in tears, you walked away from me with no word left behind
you were the pathetic woman whose wish was to walk
with the light steps, like a shimmering haze wave glows
in sunny and warm spring day, on the path lying
in the colorful flowers; however, through you knew the sun
certainly rises in that very moment, in sorrow, walked away
from me with the hurried steps
for it makes no difference if it is a sun or a moon
and the vow made was nothing but the point in which is to
stay for a little while on the way to Elysium; you harshly cut off
our bondage and left with no word to the last, though you would
have a moment to say a word of farewell, o you the woman of cold,
a stonehearted
the woman who stood in the cold wind
like a withered reed by the marsh and cried
the cry of damned daughter of Demeter was the woman,
whom i cannot trust, the woman of ill-will, because the pledge
of eternal love you made was broken one-sidedly,
you did not turn back even i implored you to go, but you,
in that dark and chilling night, hurried away with mincing steps
Copyright © Su Ben | Year Posted 2015
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