Writing For G.O.T

The Secret in Your Eyes ---for House of Black&White)

                   (224 Words, 25 lines and Free form in five stanzas)



You close your lids to Bach’s Goldberg variations
profound, witty, inventive, you hide those golden eyes
to sketch your future with hot scattered embers
but burn on your past, same as nights your dear old dad
sneaked into your room, stooped low, and you wouldn’t tell

You close your lids to Barber’s Adagio in Strings
and dream of lovers as some bewildered phantoms
from a distance with your humanly insistence
then think you can’t compare apples and oranges
but in thoughts’ placid pools stirs a fury divine

You close your lids to Ravel’s Concerto in G
harboring shattered hopes, overwhelming grief
your heart heavy, on a leash, over kids born dead
over kids found deaf, and your man who flung himself
off a cliff, after he slayed the dog as vengeance

You close your lids to Massenet’s Meditation
while nights drift to claim the shore and you curl your fists
and step up your living, now trapped in fancy clothes,
and tangled roots unfold limb by limb, as you strike
back at the world, hanging men to smolder on trees

You close your lids to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
in trails familiar, your steps birthing burials
as shadows soak into snow in bloody pathos
like your magic tricks, then you make the smallest move
and open your eyes to the bareness of iron bars

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Prompt: The secret in her eyes