The Silenced
Poem in voice of Medea's two boy children.
She lies without food and gives herself up to suffering.
Wasting-
Away every moment of the day in tears.
A bosom once our very own now filled with hate toward our lineage.
Maternal responsibility vanished and replaced with insanity,
She lays in silence.
Attempted coddled kisses ignite images of warfare,
summon the gods of magic and
over flood the sea's for alls drowning.
She lay-silent.
Our laughter reminiscences thoughts of infidelity.
Stolen love .Intangible intimacy.
Mentions of mistress from afar provides fires presence
disguised in kindness.
Her evil grows-in silence.
As pawns in passion's triangle
we wait.
Holding on to the very being who abandoned our home for rescue
We wait-in silence.
Doom's arrival creeps near
tragedy rains upon our home.
Unsheltered-
we watch-in silence.
Satan's own land servants provide barricades
at the princesses disposal.
We-are silenced.
There,
In our mothers arms
We are in danger.
Dark cries unheard
we are silent.
Produced from our fathers betrayal
we are-the silenced.
Mentions of mistress from afar provides fires presence
disguised in kindness.
Her evil grows-in silence.
As pawns in passion's triangle
we wait.
Holding on to the very being who abandoned our home for rescue
We wait-in silence.
Doom's arrival creeps near
tragedy rains upon our home.
Unsheltered-
we watch-in silence.
Satan's own land servants provide barricades
at the princesses disposal.
We-are silenced.
There,
In our mothers arms
We are in danger.
Dark cries unheard
we are silent.
Produced from our fathers betrayal
we are-the silenced.
Haven't read it really closely yet, but I'm sure I'm going to have to read it more then twice or three times.
ReplyDeleteOK. . . overall, I'm very impressed by the deftness and compactness of the language. Nice use of the ambiguity created by the broken line. You have a very strong poetic voice, Ciara! One question: second stanza: should that word "spawns" be "pawns"?
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