a final sermon

a final sermon

 

 

there were days under the influence

of superfluous flowers

and words,

 

and your eyes,

and mine, dilated in sensual prayer

as the statue of Mary

blushed

 

the roses spoke

of love,

 

then they interred themselves

of thorny departure

 

we gathered petals 

of us

 

pressed them within a hymnal 

as grief wove its way down the aisle

 

then,

stepped outside of what we had been...

 

 

erin-cilberto

9/28/2020

Reviews

[adornoscousin]

We do not just get drunk on wine. We really can be intoxicated by nature.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, adorno,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

To me these lines read that a great deal of effort had been made by one party to keep the marriage going. Catholics in those days did not divorce easily. Sadly that effort was not reciprocated and it ended in grief anyway. Sad story. Very relatable. Beautifully penned J.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, and understanding, Chris...
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Now this spake in such Catholic terms of the ending. Of the break up of a relationship and the transition from angst to empty.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, John,
j.