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Wary yet unaware.
August 11, 2015
A skirt is torn, self belts become restraints.
A painful reminder, grows inside her.
An artist's heart, her arms a razor a paints.
Child from him is what she must concur.
An infant's cries silenced; mother to blame.
Her father to the boy shoots up with lead.
A hand covers her mouth, she hides in shame.
One was so innocent, but both are dead.
The angels cry, their tears-they shatter glass.
A match is struck, two hearts weld into one.
The priests; they pray s smoke wafts into mass.
A silenced family; four souls are gone.
And all of them-the world; it shall not miss
Because it's true that ignorance is bliss.
© Benjamin S., New Hyde Park, NY
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This article has 3 comments.
Ava_Scarlett GOLD said...
on Aug. 24 2015 at 12:28 am
The first was the baby, the second was the rapist, the third was the young woman and the fourth was the girl's father because I grew up with the belief that killing another kills (or at least damages your soul).
futurista12 ELITE said...
on Aug. 13 2015 at 8:16 pm
Wow. This is really poignant. I interpreted it as a woman getting raped, aborting the child she conceives, and then shooting the child's father, the rapist. This is a really, really touching sonnet. However, I was confused about the four souls gone. Who was the fourth soul?
futurista12 ELITE said...
on Aug. 13 2015 at 8:13 pm
Wow. This is really poignant. I interpreted it as a woman getting raped and aborting the child she conceives, then shooting the child's father, the rapist. It is a really touching sonnet. However, I was confused about the four souls gone. Who is the fourth soul?
First sonnet I wrote. Make of it whatever you want because poetry is free for interpretation.