Rating: PG
Genres: drama
Keywords:
This story has been read by 794 people.
This story has been read 1309 times.
Disclaimer: No filthy lucre changed hands.
Genre: poetry
Summary: Written for the call for more poems on the Triaxian Silk board. Just dashed off in . . . would you believe it – five minutes, unrhymed. But it bubbled up from within and is offered without editing. Brazen of me, huh?
The Legacy
By Linda
She walks lightly through my dreams now
An angel all goodness, blue dress unscathed
No more the approaching horror
Burning silk and flesh and bones away
She suffered horribly, but only once
I made her suffer night after night in dreams
Long after her pain was over, mine continued
Then she reached through the veil to touch with love
Once more I can feel her beauty, her goodness
And forgive her banshee moments –
Recalling them with fondness and understanding
She was, and always will be, my baby sister
She only dies when all who knew her
Pass through this ephemeral worldly veil
Her work in stone and steel is her most enduring legacy
Yet when that stone crumbles, something of her will remain
I believe it
I know it
I live it
Such beauty cannot die
Comments:
You need to be logged in to the forum to leave a review!