Dec 2015
'SO....THE DAYS HAVE WORN AWAY...HAVE THEY?"
Mrs. Havisham
ran from her dream
and into the arms
of her husband.
She was trembling
like a dying bird
held in the hand
tears falling on it.
"Dearest...dearest!"
Mr. Havisham tried to
cajoled her back to
some kind of
reality.
"Oh, Mr. Havisham sir..!"
she palpitated
"I drempt I was on fire
and my world
was all cobwebs and dust
cobwebs and dust!"
"And, that...I was never
married and that I was
but a character in a book
by that Mr. Dickens!"
"Shhhhh...shhhhhh!" her husband
shushed her
and she slept in his embrace
as real as real.
A ray of sunshine
entered their room
bowing before them
announcing in a loud morning voice
"Your world....
....awaits you!"
Mrs. Havisham
ran from her dream
and into the arms
of her husband.
She was trembling
like a dying bird
held in the hand
tears falling on it.
"Dearest...dearest!"
Mr. Havisham tried to
cajoled her back to
some kind of
reality.
"Oh, Mr. Havisham sir..!"
she palpitated
"I drempt I was on fire
and my world
was all cobwebs and dust
cobwebs and dust!"
"And, that...I was never
married and that I was
but a character in a book
by that Mr. Dickens!"
"Shhhhh...shhhhhh!" her husband
shushed her
and she slept in his embrace
as real as real.
A ray of sunshine
entered their room
bowing before them
announcing in a loud morning voice
"Your world....
....awaits you!"
I like fictional characters as they can be even further fictionalised! One can then give them other various possible possibilities and invent other futures...other lives for them and see how they unfurl themselves into whoever you make them be on just a passing whim. I've just wrote another called ROMEO &...MARY.
