Ribbons!

By Lady Poetry

Ribbons. (Very Dark) 

Take the silken ribbon from my hair.
Wrap it tight around my neck.
For on cold nights of loneliness.
In darkness.
My cold body sits.
My neck bruised in compassion.
Once there in sight.
Was once there in mind.
There for company.
Seek and thou shall find my friend.

Embalmed behind a sullen smile.
Austere.
Such quiet company.
In dignified silence sat.
My mouth stitched shut.
Calling out is not aloud.

I feel you watching me.
While in eternity I sleep.
A presence around me.
I feel that you want me.
Caught by skeins of royal blue.
Oxygen depleted.
In a tapestry of captivity.

But I am not yours.
Only God can set me free.

(I have no  organised religion, I am agnostic. The last line…just seemed to fit.
I am a Robert Browning fan and a Poe fan. Hence the darkness!).

By ladylivvi1

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Copyright 2013 Lady Poetry
Published on Wednesday, November 20, 2013.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • tmanzano On Thursday, March 28, 2019, tmanzano (210)By person wrote:

    I have wrote and rewrote my comment on this piece twice now... I will have to read again to get this correct. I seem to be having a difficult time expressing what I see and feel of it. That is a good thing... I love it when a piece does this. I will be back. Read it some more. Put it down, ruminate, and comment later.

  • Jonas Robinson On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Jonas Robinson (867)By person wrote:

    Nice use of language. Very descriptive and ironic. :)

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