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Gaslight Charade
“Remembrance is our duty”, preachers scold.
The duty’s yours, not mine; my conscience? Clear.
I’ve stood on duty, rain, hail, freezing cold,
Protesting first the lies, then deaths, then tears.
Remembrance, once in quiet grief-struck thought,
Derides now, that their warm red blood had run.
The flower of our hope’s debased and mocked,
Out on parade with Strictly Tit and B...
Friday 11th November 2022 2:06 pm
Discharging inherited duty
Confused, fickle
I had been marring mine
And others' life to date
But this bent
I have grown to hate!
So God
Send on my way
My soul mate!
Before the prime time of
My life is gone
For my sins
I have to atone!
As I observed,
When it comes to delight,
To looking after an offspring
Comes close nothing.
Careless, to forget
To procreate
Is a folly I will live
To regret.
Secon...
Tuesday 6th March 2018 2:39 pm
Discharging inherited duty
Confused, fickle
I had been marring mine
And others' life to date
But this bent
I have grown to hate!
So God
Send on my way
My soul mate!
Before the prime time of
My life is gone
For my sins
I have to atone!
As I observed,
When it comes to delight,
To looking after an offspring
Comes close nothing.
Careless, to forget
To procreate
Is a folly I will live
To regret.
Secon...
Tuesday 6th March 2018 2:33 pm
Dear Sigyn
Dear Sigyn,
you fool.
We both know he doesn’t love you.
Catching the venom meant for his eye,
silent even though he should cry
out in fury at your meddling.
Dear Sigyn,
you fool.
Even the serpent laughs at you.
I’d think your body was through
even if your heart was still into
an idiot’s errand that no one would rue.
Dear Sigyn,
you fool.
The end ...
Wednesday 2nd March 2016 10:08 am
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