Lifetime warranty spiked above the headboard – Pounded, driven in. A ****** memento for spellbound comfort. For beleaguered convenience, every vindication.
From the reliquary a Prefect draws Scrabble squares: Transgressions divined in crossword. Taking them on, like Him, and Glaring, feeding them back to you, a Beguiling grin: Absolving all.
Not quite the mother, at least Present to explain the Pain she bears for you.
Not Santa, not Tooth Fairy, Unworthy of the wall.
The Easter Bunny, Harebrained scheme, Foot hacked clean at absurdity’s altar, keeps Suffering and suffering and suffering.
But you do clutch, and do not falter.
******, magical pretense, Lurid, laudable as a Hotdog on a stick, and just as Tasteless.
Snake oil, tendrils crossing paths in a Greasy Baptismal pool, Soliciting the stranglehold.
No grace; just a Wolf and a Sheep. Guess which you are.