Hearts out

OK, back to TFE's writing tasks it is then. We have a visitor from afar for the next few days so I won't be around here much and I'm putting up my homework early. The one due for Monday had a brief something along the lines of 'take Valentine's Day as your starting point'. So I did. I started with Valentine's Day...and I came up with this:


Sinning

Oh boy, are you not sick
Of being good?
Do you not fancy
A defiant waltz down
To the tackiest shop in town
There to pluck clean out
The brightest, gaudiest heart
Caress its velvet sections
Then take it home
To bed for good?

And once you're safe
Back inside
Do you not want
To write your own name
In big looping letters on the envelope
Add a splash
Of something scent
Then watch as you both
Dance down to disgrace
In the mirror's light?

And with a pen gripped
Do you not long
To fill the quiet page
With bursting symbols
Lines of mood and travesty
Then push it all firmly
Into its red holder
Seal it forever
With the longest, fullest
Wettest kiss?


RF 2010




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