The scratchy vinyl kept spinning,
The Magic Flute played;
yet, clock announced its heartbeat
loud, the ticking.
The girl,
planted a searching kiss on your lips.
She wondered if you,
her fiancé,
loved her still.
Love, a stranger to you,
the kisses, you couldn't feel—
on the canvas of your mind,
you started reliving a scene:
pallors on those women lying still.
The storm,
gave way to the calm.
You asked yourself:
would you ever feel life
at the sound of
a woman's beating heart?
Or were you doomed to see
the knife piercing their bodies
again and again,
as the blood spurted out?
A confusion,
who you were.
They died with tears in their eyes
but left you wishing
you didn't survive.
Who killed them? couldn't recall.
The killer's face,
only a fragment—
the face was calm.
The knives plunged lovingly,
as if he was making love.
No elation in his face,
only the finale,
the only outcome of permanence
of an all-consuming love.
Magic Flute played-
the music took you back
to that scene,
where their lifeless bodies laid
and it played.
There, she kissed again-
you felt an urge to make love.
Yet, the perfume she wore...
that place where they died,
smelled different...
Frozen:
which love-
like the killer's?
The Magic Flute played.....
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Author:
Rebellion In Sanity (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Can someone, battered by traumatic experience, ever return to normal life?
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The magic flute plays throughout this poem and the queen of the night sings to Pamina as does Papageno. Can a person recover from trauma depends upon the trauma and the person and maybe the music. Very well done my friend
Thank you for your support and kind words 🙏.
Most welcome Rebellion
My friend, I’ve walked that place where music should comfort and instead becomes the trigger...where a kiss claws open memory rather than closeness. You put that trauma cleanly on the page; it’s brutal and true. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Thank you very much for your support 🙏. Appreciate your help.
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