Friday, May 4, 2012

Hood

And once more, fairy tale haiku.
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Red-caped young beauty
Skipping the path through the woods
Swinging her basket

Dutiful grandchild
Cares for me in my dotage
Wasting her young life

Purposeless, I wait
Children grown, husband long dead
Helpless invalid

Burdensome am I
She complains not, but I know
My time is long past.

I hear your howling
Your pain and my pain are one
Hungering are we

O, Beloved Wolf
Release me from my old bones
Take me, consume me

Quickly, quickly now
Lest she see my suffering
We shall all be free.


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