Estranged –

“The distant soul can shake the distant friend’s soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.” ― John Masefield

  bibliophilebunny

Stares into the fires of what used to be

Longing for a shore on this endless sea

Then and still she rejects me

Glares into the mirror of what is to see

Glancing back just the bare image of me

Then and still she blames me

Pairs thrown into storms of life do believe

Splitting again to separate entities

Then and still she’s a part of me

First published in Opinions Of Eye

Cleft Derision

“…independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn’t he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.”

– Robert E. Sherwood

“derision preemption – a life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers.”- 

Sorrow is better than laughter, she whispered

Sharpening the knife of her concupiscence

Drawing a razor’s edge across the wrist of commitment

Tears define your purpose and cleanse your soul, she mumbled

Hacking at the cords of her errant desire

Carving the yearning arms of safety and family

Cries hone the instincts and rebuke complacency, she sang

Slicing through passion with words of dark rejection

Cutting with lust and splittinghearts asunder in cleft derision

05222012