We, three children,
bound by that gossamer of a weaving.
Oh, Mama’s moon.
“I’ll cook one for each of you, my triumvirate.”
“One I give to you, my Oldest”.
She clasps it to her heart.
The tide rises,
men fall.
“To you Middle One, this.”
She tinkers the heart that made it.
The world bleeds,
men fall.
What of mine?
To oblivion it is: I will stash.
I, Older than my grandmother, and to her.
But Oblivion’s easy, a fish caught mine.
Mama sung, we slept.
“Hush, my dear triumvirate, tomorrow
we’ll cook again.”
Crescent smiles formed our lips.
Three moons, crushed to smithereens;
And so was her sanity, and ours.
Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
We, three children,
bound by that gossamer of a weaving.
Oh, Mama’s moon.
“I’ll cook one for each of you, my triumvirate.”
“One I give to you, my Oldest”.
She clasps it to her heart.
The tide rises,
men fall.
“To you Middle One, this.”
She tinkers the heart that made it.
The world bleeds,
men fall.
What of mine?
To oblivion it is: I will stash.
I, Older than my grandmother, and to her.
But Oblivion’s easy, a fish caught mine.
Mama sung, we slept.
“Hush, my dear triumvirate, tomorrow
we’ll cook again.”
Crescent smiles formed our lips.
Three moons, crushed to smithereens;
And so was her sanity, and ours.
