Heroine extraordinaire
I loved you then
and love you still
Hardy’s daughter of Wessex
Pure, innocence shone
Mistreated by men
Your fresh faced beauty
Attracted
Forced upon
Mother of misery
Buried child
Without a name
Angel your saviour
So good a man as he
Your one true love
Married you in bliss
So good a man as he
Abandoned you
On your wedding night
Ears closed to your truth
You worked the land
A survivor
Harsh winter toil
Chilled to the bone
He claimed you
He who forced you
And in your abandonment
A weak moment of chill
Good Angel reconsidered
Years away, his health poor
Returned to find you
Too late
In cold hatred
he who forced you
paid
as you snapped
I can see you now
Cold as Winter’s smile
On the slabs of Stonehenge
As they came for you
My favourite
doomed
heroine
Tess
4/2/19 JG