Deaths jilted bride. Marylee's monologue.

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(A lone voice whispers)

I'm under no legal or spiritually strict authority

To make any sense or even to answer to you

I just write this

My divine poetry 

As a means of mental escape 

To disassemble any strands of an old love that I once knew

These interwoven lines

Carefully and lovely built 

In here

The Great In-Between

Will help me rebuild the foundations of confidence 

I need within its contemporary words 

To then enter any room 

In the New World

Gushing 

Filled with an abundance of high-pitched energy 

And with a lit-up aura that screams

I'm a queen

My new empire will rise up like a rare Phoenix from the moist ashes 

Of all those depressing tears

I once cried

When you left me standing alone 

In the cold

At the railway station in Branton Peake

With a soft kiss on my right cheek and murmured a cheap goodbye

I may lose everything inside but like an autumn tree

Which loses its green leaves every year

I'll still stand tall 

To regrow

And wait for the better days to come

The days

In which my emotional winter passes 

So I can I stop shedding a depressing tear

You see 

Inner power isn't about how much you can handle 

Before you break

When love walks out 

And leaves your heart swollen and frozen

It's about how much you can sustain 

To govern that pain 

But still manage to grow

After you've been so beautifully turned out by that special someone 

Opened up seductively only to then be insidiously broken

When shot by heartbroken red bullets 

From Loves 

Black and metal

Shotgun

I 

Marylee

Might be Deaths jilted bride

But I'll survive

For I now know where Robert Louis Stevenson

Got the inspiration 

For The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 

He must have met you

In disguise 

At The Crown Prince

Dockside

And the rest as they say is history

As I've heard 

 

You've never stop bragging at the bar

 About your only lover and how you put a stop to your emotions

By committing an act of Uxoricide

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Copyright John Duffy

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Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -cide, from caedere meaning "to cut, to kill") is the killing of one's own wife. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. The killing of a husband is called mariticide