Friday, 24 October 2014

Altered


The wind tears fierce
A cruel hand grasps the rose
It groans piteously turned upon its stem
It is torn away
It is cast down despised 
No more in its exalted place where it once was

The simple anger of another
A written message batters the soul
It writhes in anguish gutted to the core
It is mutilated
It is put down, rejected
No more in the lovely place where once it was

The sun shines slantwise warm
A kind hand picks up the little rose
It lies there languid aching in humiliation
It is returned
It is not the same it is altered
Not hopeless but emptied there where it once was

Turbulence and needed shame
Innocence agonizing in being misunderstood
But what gift could ever profit more
If pain should work more right than ease
And humiliation an even greater good
Why cry my heart be glad there is more room in you






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