WEDDING BLUES
The rejected man
acrylic paint on canvas by Robert Margetts
Five to midnight
the circle broken and a nail
twenty half moons alone in the alter
jilted at the rail
Pupils barren of life
drip the dew that webs the skies
constricted by the veil
awakened to the lies
The ring and the gauntlet
the sour blood and the glove
hidden beneath the shame
the snake shed his love
The shower before the alter
the china broken in the slush
the hands move with time
as bristles fall from the brush
The square completed and the nail
sealed inside a prison of pine
ashes to ashes, dust to dust
only the rings survives time.
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