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The Captain’s Log
by Marge Simon
My liege, remember me?
I’m your pale prisoner
with amber eyes,
grown thin as wheat,
on my way to serve my term
in the land beyond the seas.
.
My heart belongs to a lad
whose only fault was me.
Had I not complained of hunger,
that loaf would still be in the baker’s bin,
and he’d be sleeping in my arms,
rather than a pauper’s grave.
.
You would grant me life before death.
But it’s only flowers on marble
thrones, boxes of bright geraniums
beneath blood spattered walls, and
I, a woman “free”, my life
.
mapped out and condemned
that I no more draw a breath of freedom,
a plethora of lies in your rolled parchments!
May tears from heaven blur the ink
before I am undone.
.
Bring me a sturdy bit of rope,
I’ll make a hangman’s knot,
a mariner’s twisty tie that knows
its trim against the coming gale.
Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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