Sunday, August 26, 2012

The Honor of Thy Father


The sunset over the ocean
A tear drop down her cheek
A feeling of lose rolls through her
Deep down inside
Racing through her mind
Yesterday a dream?

One step forward
Out into the never ending blue
The crashing waves promising
Take the pain away
Another drop falls from her wet blue eyes
Her stomach churning
From the reality she denies

Another step forward
The cold touches her feet
Crashing up to her ankles
The numbness, forward she leaps
Aching within, shattering her soul
More tears drop into ocean
Ebb and flow  

Salt mixed with salt
The water skulking up her chest
Was it only yesterday?
It seems like a life time ago
The moon and the crest
The stoning of her beloved
Gone forever, lovers lost
A crime so insignificant, or so it seemed  
One that came at a cost
A life now two that was lost

Now or never
The taste of salt engulfing her mouth
The darkness of the sea shows no mercy
The moon takes over, an eerie glow
She is pulled and obstructed by the cloth covering her head
In and out she fades from the pain
The death is excruciating and slow
The images of her beloved, blood wounded and death
She would have it no other way
He suffered the same fate

They will look for her
They will find her bloated body
Her father will not cry
She has shamed him
To him she will also die
The only disappointment
He wasn’t able to do it himself
For the honor was his
And not hers to take

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