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She flew away from all that she knew;
She ran far and wide
Frantically querying about a young maiden
With the most melancholy of face,
The one who could not smile, nor utter a single word.
When humans would not help,
She implored the Sun, pleaded with the Wind
Besought the elements,
That made up the universe – Continue reading “The Unhappy Queen with a Porous Heart – Aggrievance IV”
In the years that passed,
The young girl’s smile disappeared
Then her words vanished,
Till she became barely perceptible,
Until one day she was to be found nowhere.
At first she shrugged it away.
‘Where could she have gone?’ she muttered.
‘Who would take in that useless, ingrate?’
She raised a haughty eyebrow, Continue reading “The Unhappy Queen with a Porous Heart – Aggrievance III”
There was something about her little niece,
That irked her from the start.
Was it her ever smiling face, or the lack of guile?
Was it the cheerful spirit or zest for life?
Was it a mother’s weak, selfish heart –
that could not stand up to her narcissistic daughter’s
wanton need for incessant attention?
Or was it because she constantly craved her daughter’s approval
that she found it necessary to ingratiate with the one she engendered.
No matter the reasons; Continue reading “The Unhappy Queen with a Porous Heart – Aggrievance II”
From time to time, her porous heart
Pulled out sheaves of memory,
That twisted her being like shards of glass
Some of them loathsome in its shame
Some of them woeful,
In its coldness and apathy.
The ages that have passed since,
Did not dissolve the wounds of her past
The memories of her sins still fresh in its agony, Continue reading “The Unhappy Queen with a Porous Heart – Aggrievance I”
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