Invitations Sent Backwards

Invitations Sent Backwards

 

 

i'm monotony's bridegroom

constant surge of emotions

the pen walking down the aisle

of the mind,

 

waiting for the words

to proclaim the marriage of poet and pain

pews filled with bystanders, family

strangers

all filled with wonder at this union

 

and why the laughter

stayed in the sanctuary

avoiding the ceremony

but unceremoniously divorced from love

 

the reception comes later

years later

and the toast is to the attempts

to the writes

 

to what was destined to fail from the onset

two lovers who later became attendees

to the next wedding,

sitting on opposite sides

as strangers in pews

 

filled with strangeness

yet the monotony is still

the ring bearer

waiting for its cue.

 

 

erin-cilberto

7/13/17

Reviews

[W.k.kortas]

Your wonderful ability to keep a thematic string drawn tautly is on full display here, and the wordplay is equally first-rate. Fine, fine stuff.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, W.k.

j.