Longerdays
(A Play... in two vignettes)
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Part One (at daybreak)
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She comes in from the dawn like a white shadow
and hides in the room, alone, at the top of the staircase
behind curtains heavy and doors locked
cursed and ashamed
she cries her bane, the light coming to stay longer now
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Wintersnight mistresses are doomed in the spring to wait
she is not undead, and wishes she could be
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Part Two (at prolonged sunset horizon)
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lumens.....waning deliberately
as a bad actor milking a death scene
and the lovers wrestle on the hillside
entwined as long as light holds their figures
into shadows long behind them joined
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and he says "I love you for the way we are together"
and she knows, that as the day will end
...then my sister can live outside again...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~© wellhoned 1997
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