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Poetry Journal Oct. 10, 2013

 

The sword has hung over my head for so long

I sometimes forget it is still there,

Glittering sharp edge aching to taste blood

The sword has hung over my neck for so long

I forget she still holds it,

Her nervous fingers twitching

In anticipation it will taste blood

The sword she thinks I use against her

Is an illusion, carved not out of wood

Of my own making, just hers,

Operating with no hand on the hilt,

Though it glistens the way hers glistens,

An impasse, the same pending doom,

She thinking my hand holds it

When I do all I can to hold it back

Partly because if this sword fall on her,.

Hers falls on me,

And we both lose,

Though she has less to lose than me.



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