Mother of Love
By Ana Kusenberger
where she walked,
the flowers
bloomed,
church bells
chimed,
choirs of cherubs
sang.
she
gave the
groundlings
a gift to
save their
souls.
she gave them
love.
love
in seventy ways.
hope and
passion
for a future
that may never come.
who was
she
to
deprive them
of
such a
gift?
then, the
parading
started.
love was
no longer
the same. fickle
and untrue,
shallow
and commercial.
this was
not the intention,
she thought,
i give them the
greatest
gift
i could.
i can take it away.
and she did.
no more poppies
in the fields,
no chimes,
no strings,
no sunset skies,
no cherry kisses,
no spring,
no summer,
no fall,
just
winter.
an endless
winter
that persisted through
the days.
the weeks.
the years.
the eons.
she
never
deemed the world
fit
for love
again.
she left them their
commercial
bullshit. their
chocolate boxes
and red dozens,
but she
took
the passion.
the antiprometheus.
she took fire
from man.