Auburn hair and freckles, but such a sickly child
Cossetted and nurtured, no permission to be wild
Always painfully shy, with both cheeks blushing red
Unable to blossom, she went inwards instead
A grown up who struggled with confidence and living
To strive in a world that was so unforgiving
She met a good man with confidence for two
And slowly her spirit began to shine through
Now widowed and alone her greatest challenge yet, she knew…
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Secrets sail
drifting, flying
hitching a ride
cushioned and cossetted
safely tucked
among clouds of innocence
longings float
hidden
and
unblessed
as lonely wind
The salve of time
gratefully pushes
his silent Hobos
tumbling bittersweet
toward the ecstacy of
nothingness.
Listen.
Do you hear a fading heartbeat on the breeze -
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Just as the virgin’s cossetted
Nursed untouched raised in seclusion :
So’s the toro
Two beings born to be slaughtered
For sado-masochistic fruition :
Virgin toro
Then the day comes for her sacrifice
Even as the toro’s let loose in ring :
Blood’s espada
Banderilleros splice eyes
Faenas rip muletas and sting :
Estocada
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
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