Dark Muse
01-26-2012, 02:49 PM
The Soldier's Wife
Scarcely was it time enough to breathe
a moment they were given which felt stolen,
making it all the more delicious
and yet still so much the bitter.
She savored this body,
miraculously still whole
with a beating heart inside,
but she wondered at moments
stealing glances in his eyes,
how intact?
Her love was tempered with
momentary bursts of fear
that left her trembling in regret,
though she knew that heart
full of holes as it may be,
belonged still to her.
But this body that she would
hold onto for dear life was not
hers to keep, she knew it belonged
to them, and he may well have
signed his soul to the devil
for it was buried somewhere
in that arid earthbound hell.
They were mocking in their generosity
of restoring him to her again,
knowing they could without question
summon him back, and next time
they may send him back by piecemeal,
would they than still allow her to have
his heart when nothing else was left,
after they stripped everything else away?
Scarcely was it time enough to breathe
a moment they were given which felt stolen,
making it all the more delicious
and yet still so much the bitter.
She savored this body,
miraculously still whole
with a beating heart inside,
but she wondered at moments
stealing glances in his eyes,
how intact?
Her love was tempered with
momentary bursts of fear
that left her trembling in regret,
though she knew that heart
full of holes as it may be,
belonged still to her.
But this body that she would
hold onto for dear life was not
hers to keep, she knew it belonged
to them, and he may well have
signed his soul to the devil
for it was buried somewhere
in that arid earthbound hell.
They were mocking in their generosity
of restoring him to her again,
knowing they could without question
summon him back, and next time
they may send him back by piecemeal,
would they than still allow her to have
his heart when nothing else was left,
after they stripped everything else away?