I once imagined you
Cherished and sheltered me
With your golden light of
Maternity
My distant Mother Moon
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You looked on wide-eyed
Reticent in the face of my reality
I howled for mercy
Labeled wild and unruly
My broken hymn
The cries of the despised
Rang out night after night
Falling on deafened skies
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I chafe to think how
I looked up to your
Eternal scrutinizing glow
Only now I realize
Your mute disapproving
Glowers through the
Gloaming of childhood horrors
Are all I've ever known
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Even now, I sit in mourning
At the atrocities
Tacitly witnessed
The tears and blood gone
Unavenged
My shattered world
A life lived in
Full eclipse
K.B. Silver
About the Creator
K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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