04-10-2024, 04:16 AM
Mary’s Daughter
She smiles, the final heroine
composed, complete, Edwardian,
who, flown, returns as champion
of not escaping consequence:
of Time.
No fairy Tinkerbell, no wife
of savages or ever-lost
never-maturing boys she rocks
the cradle, not
the band.
So when first star and morning pass
above and not behind she blesses
worthy men, not fay or trendy:
lover of true heroes, Wendy
Darling.
She smiles, the final heroine
composed, complete, Edwardian,
who, flown, returns as champion
of not escaping consequence:
of Time.
No fairy Tinkerbell, no wife
of savages or ever-lost
never-maturing boys she rocks
the cradle, not
the band.
So when first star and morning pass
above and not behind she blesses
worthy men, not fay or trendy:
lover of true heroes, Wendy
Darling.
Non-practicing atheist