Your Mistress Defiled

Has your violence

taken you to places

I’ve not been

 

Or driven you

to things

I’ve not seen

 

Was your soul

mired in conflict

once raised from the dead

 

Were your walls

built to fortify

excuses and blame

 

Have your choices

been forged by

damnation and fear

 

Did love matter at all

when it cried

through the pain

 

Could you still hear its voice

on those darkest

of nights

 

Were those places you

conquered

in tribute now damned

 

Did your victims

kneel down

their heads bowed in shame

 

Was mercy rejected

your mistress

defiled

 

Has your violence

taken you to places

I’ve not been

 

Or driven you

to things

I’ve not seen

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

 

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