"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!"

*

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.

The title is of course my favourite quote of Miss H from the book but it always reminds me of a SAMUEL BECKETT line.

WAITING FOR THE MAN or UNHAPPY DAYS.