Saturday, December 17, 2011

she returns from her palace


She returns from her palace,
After her daily chores
She unties her hair, washes her face
With water running down her cheeks which
Complaints of not being pampered.
The night gets more dark, with thick blanket covering our body.
We make love…she doesn’t smell of designer perfumes
But of garlic and onion….
Her lips don’t taste of strawberries
But of salt, salt of her toil.
As we both lay, as snakes in a glass jar
Her tears roll down my shoulder,
I never ask her the reason,  
As I slip into the lap of sleep
My wife, my guilt, stares at me,
unanimated, still, cold…
For some reason, that I never ask.

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