The Law of Separation

[Delta40]

Once I give my oath
I will love you like
a hostile witness
chained to mahogany.
When you call me to the stand
my testimony will speak for itself
and hold up under cross examination
The jury soon returns a verdict.
Not guilty
Gavel and block
You order me to step down
I shake myself loose of the bonds
and bail out before the motion to appeal is granted.

[Hawkman]

This is delightfully ambiguous Delta: It could be a marriage or a divorce, though I've never heard of the latter being appealed against - lol. Either way, I think it's really clever. I can't make up my mind what the shape reminds me of though. Is it a pair of sagging breasts above a skirt or a pair of buttocks sitting on the sharp end of a pyramid? I guess my psychiatrist would have a field day - lol. Oh no, she couldn't, come to think of it; she's buried in the woods - oops!

[Twota]

I really like this one, Delta.:D
specially the last three lines.

[Jack of Hearts]

This reader picked up mostly on divorce. Being 'chained to mahogany' is powerful domestic imagery.








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[MystyrMystyry]

Don't know where this was hiding - pretty clever I think Delta

(though the Rorshach effect is now pronounced thanks to an earlier commentator - maybe you could get a vase/two facing faces out of it?)

[Bar22do]

Before a bold N like the one of your poem, no prison bars resist!