Sally's Suicide
Language: English
The poetry of her life
hung suspended like
a broken mobile
on the bridge
of her abandoned boat.
She had entered there from time
to time to sort the fragments
of her former self
and came away
with some sweet witticism,
a smile of remembrance
from the past.
But hope had left her,
and expectation. Existence
like a sea anemone had
become a fastened thing
and ended one day
from the desultory feeding
and the weight of water
upon the gentle movement
of its tentacles.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren
[Guest Editor] , Mark Abel
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
Line count: 21
Word count: 85