Peel me apart
Peer inside
Find traces of
Gouges, made by
Dreary November
Year after year
Where is my
Sunshine spirit
Dissolved, gone
Maybe for good
Weighty skies
Hold frozen tears
July wept
Seasons ago
August dried them
Running his fingertips
Under her eyes
To be collected
In a bottle
Foolishly given
In blind trust
To a stark man
Swathed in grey
Mistakes were made
Tension building
He requires restitution
Taking pounds of flesh
Reluctantly relinquished
We must pay tribute
To our unwelcome overlord
He comes to collect
What I refuse to
Freely give
Snow Queen
I am not
Set me free
Cast me out
I’m tired of
Forced containment
Constricting sleeves of
Winter coats
Transgress freedom
Shibari without
Pleasure or trust
Marionette puppet
Confined in wool casing
He searches for me
As I hide
Under mounds of
Fuzzy blankets
Eventually I must
Venture out
To be quickly
Found and bound
He looms, he leers
Demanding his due
Strips of my hide
Red and chapped
Exposed to
His lash, his bite
Getting off from
My misery
Sagging, flagging
I yield
What else can be done
But surrender
Snow finally falls
World becomes white
Blue skies return
Moon is an ornament
Suspended from
Naked trees
She doesn’t mind
His presence
This is her time
On a dark horizon
Longest night approaches
Lovingly held
In December’s hands
For safekeeping
About the Creator
Aspen Marie
In love with life and all of its foibles.
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Comments (2)
Aspen, this is stunningly bleak in the best way. You completely nailed that heavy, draining feeling of November. I especially like the "Marionette puppet confined in wool casing" and the image of August running his fingertips under July's eyes to collect tears.
Well-wrought! "It's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain." -Guns n Roses