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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. 

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