The Pillowcase

[ampoule]

The Pillowcase

She writhed around in the bed, in the dark,
in the quiet house, begging God,
please, don't let it be,
how could this happen to me,
what will I do, how can I tell?
Her tears, so pitiful,
spilled out upon the pillowcase,
the one embroidered by her grandmother,
the one washed, ironed and lovingly placed
upon the pillow by her mother,
and she paused to touch the colored threads,
the blue bells, the violets, the butterfly,
and slowly she lowered her head,
burying her face to muffle her silent screams.

ampoule, May Second, TwoThousandEight

[PrinceMyshkin]

Hunh! Here I was expecting from the title one of those Perry Masons I used to read! But of course there IS a mystery here... the only guess I can make about that muffled scream is that she has recently received news of the death of her mother?

[symphony]

I'm not sure whose death (if death, that is) it is... but i enjoyed reading it. Another great one from you, Madam. *claps*

[Pendragon]

Strange... I didn't really read death into the poem at first read... Loss, yes... This poem could run much deeper than it appears on the surface... Beautiful, Amp! ;)

[Sweets America]

Whatever or whoever this is about, this is very sad and conveys this thing, this pain that one feels in one's guts when a terrible event happens.

[ampoule]

Sorry to disappoint you, Prince. ;) That was so funny. I laughed and laughed at what you said.
Thank you, friends. It isn't about death at all unless, in a very round-about way, the death of innocence, but that had already happened. Much pain. Sweets picked up on that. And great disappointment.

[Pendragon]

Pain, disappointment and faced with choice, let us say? :(

[blazeofglory]

Your poem is really telling that goes on deepening human conditions. Things like this happen here and man becomes both helpless and hapless in point of fact. Things like this happen always here.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Sorry to disappoint you, Prince. ;) That was so funny. I laughed and laughed at what you said.

Is there perhaps to be a sequel, or a series of them, e.g. The Bedspreeeead and The Cover Let?

[ampoule]

Pain, disappointment and faced with choice, let us say? :(

You nailed it, Pen.