When its all gone
When it is all gone
The raindrops trickle down the screeching window pain.
The dress lies in the corner unworn.
The bitterness fills the room till there is just breathing space left.
She sits frozen in the stillness of the moment.
Rigid hard and cold. No longer human like. They wonder what to do
They to shocked by the events, but the sword of heartbreak has not sliced
Them, they can only emulate how they think she is feeling.
They call her by name hoping to reignite her spirit to reality.
“Mary, mary its over the moment has passed let’s get on with what is ahead.
She ignored them not even bothering to process their words as they bounced back to them void.
The women sighed, the most important women in her life all here to witness the alleged beginning of her life as a married woman.
A silent undertone sneaked between the tight ringed women who were all married, a sweet reverence to the cruel , cruel betrayal.
Haden had been Mary’s world, he had been the beginning and end of her happiness she knew nothing else but him.
Her mother tapped her hoping to ease a response from the hollow carved human being.
“Mary dear it will be ok, it cannot get worse”
“Oh don’t be patronising, woman”
“A word people , a word” her mother screeched alerting the other women in the room.
Mary stared at her mum her eyes narrowing then finally at the gold band attached to her finger it was a part of her, the ring she wore held great sentimental value. But Haden could not give her that ; the gift of having a man authority contained in a ring never to…
The raindrops trickle down the screeching window pain.
The dress lies in the corner unworn.
The bitterness fills the room till there is just breathing space left.
She sits frozen in the stillness of the moment.
Rigid hard and cold. No longer human like. They wonder what to do
They to shocked by the events, but the sword of heartbreak has not sliced
Them, they can only emulate how they think she is feeling.
They call her by name hoping to reignite her spirit to reality.
“Mary, mary its over the moment has passed let’s get on with what is ahead.
The women sighed, the most important women in her life all here to witness the alleged beginning of her life as a married woman.
A silent undertone sneaked between the tight ringed women who were all married, a sweet reverence to the cruel , cruel betrayal.
Haden had been Mary’s world, he had been the beginning and end of her happiness she knew nothing else but him.
Her mother tapped her hoping to ease a response from the hollow carved human being.
“Mary dear it will be ok, it cannot get worse”
“Oh don’t be patronising, woman”
“A word people , a word” her mother screeched alerting the other women in the room.
Mary stared at her mum her eyes narrowing then finally at the gold band attached to her finger it was a part of her, the ring she wore held great sentimental value. But Haden could not give her that ; the gift of having a man authority contained in a ring never to…
