This Poem was Submitted By: Sharon A. Angleman-Goodson On Date: 2000-10-01 19:23:13 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Cheshire Grin

The illusion of love,    so soft, tempting and alluring  Cheshire grins promising that one perfect,    special thing  And the widow spins.  While the heart pretends  Not to notice innate, sloven moats  Or that the world around has gone gray  Lover, beware.  What's sought is not there.  The looking glass shattered from time.  Look not in the flame,     though the image remains  In the sphere of a lone poet's rhythm.  But never a lesson is learned.  Heed slick, tempestuous lips and fervent breath  Do not be fooled.  There is no genuine,  It's only honed quill alluding to death.  It gives blood to the verse     that poets rehearse  In their search for abiding Queen's land.  So in their delusion young lovers recite,  What they hold fondly in colander hands.  Not a thought do they give to life's natural sieve,  Or consider the end of their time.  It will come in a way that takes life away,  One morsel, one breath at a time.  Don't deceit with belief, don't believe with deceit.  Learn quickly the hollow bored hole.  Don't hope for a life, don't dare live without hope,  Seek not the adroit troll's toll.  Seek instead for no want of a soul. 

Copyright © October 2000 Sharon A. Angleman-Goodson

Additional Notes:
I know..."one perfect thing, ect." is a bit cliche, but it was intentional - and appropriate for the inspiration of this piece....


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