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Marital Hiss
by Angela Yuriko Smith
Part I: Her Complaint
Late at night, your words did flow
on eternity implied with youthful glow.
With blinded trust I bared my vein
to seal a pact in crimson stain.
“You shall remain,” you promised me
“Eternal life! From death be freed.”
But when I awoke I saw the lie
in withered face and drooping eye.
I cannot forgive, forever appalled
at your trickery and the lies you sold.
Forever young you led me to think.
My future is sunk. Your promises stink.
Part II: His Reply
By midnight chime, my love was true!
Eternal life I bestowed on you.
But your natural age I could not understand
with your makeup applied by such talented hand.
My love, my heart, I offered the same.
A timeless existence, not youthful frame.
How could I know how bodywear binds
and deceives both my thought, my eye and mind?
A vow eternal, yet love is denied
trapped by our tricks, we both now reside
as prisoners of all our misled expectations
together, a couple, in this mausoleum.
Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.
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Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.
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How FUN! This reminds me of two self-serving and ego-oriented movie stars.
Darkly amusing and fun.
Love the structure of this poem – so unexpected – it feels as if these two have been wrangling for the whole of eternity and are nowhere near finished yet – so finely crafted.