A Simple Smile

A Simple Smile …

A simple smile upon her face …
A simple smile with her love’s embrace …
A simple smile expressed her delight …
A simple smile, then a nibbled bite …
A simple smile when he moaned aloud …
A simple smile as his love he vowed …
A simple smile as he murmured her name?
A simple smile to a frown became!
A simple smile as she covered his face!
A simple smile to hide her disgrace.

The pillow held firmly ‘till he breathed no more.
Her anger was spent; she dropped to the floor.
No blood and no fingerprints left to betray,
She smiled at him fondly as she walked away.

** (Note … When in an intimate embrace, NEVER murmur the WRONG name!)


ANAPHORA: A rhetorical device in which several successive lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences begin with the same word or phrase (the opposite of epistrophe).