Stigmater

Woman in pain

Stigmater -

poisoned mother.

Bleeding love,

they took your child.

Joan of Arc, 

tortured soul -

haunted, hunted, burned.

They split your love,

prised you inside out -

blood and teeth on the outside, 

writhing, cursing, 

spitting, hexing.

Agony.

Your beautiful child stolen from you -

your inner peace and beauty

hooked and hung out

like dead rat.

They crushed and broke you

with immeasurable pressure.

A mangled flower,

petals fractured and frozen.

Heart cold,

with the sadness of a damp cell.

Your beauty is missed by most,

drowned in their shallow lives,

recoiling in your screams,

they cry 'Banshee'!

I say 'She'.

A Beautiful Woman -

a Wonderful Love denied -

and my friend.