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Diatribe Of A Wicked Queen
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TITLE (EDIT)
Diatribe Of A Wicked Queen
DESCRIPTION
A different take on the Wicked Queen concept. Is she really wicked, or just a victim of circumstance? Inspired by my own life.
[423 words]
AUTHOR
M Southwell
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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[December 2007]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (1)
Dream Of A Past Life (Poetry) A poem I wrote about a very vivid dream I had one night. [513 words]
Diatribe Of A Wicked Queen
M Southwell

Overcast and dreary, through the mists of paranoia
That you summon with your spite
Your withered, tired hands seek me out
To drain me of my will, and satiate your vampiric mind
Transmute the joyous rain into a desperate drought

Your words...like threads of razor...
Gripping, grating, gashing, grinding...into my thoughts
"I'm a slut? Now, you know that's far from being true."
You merely try to find fault in she who's lovelier than you.

You're a blight in my world
And I, a villain in yours
He tells me, "she'll let us be...eventually
If we just let this run it's course."
But my defenses erode like mountains, my patience thaws like ice
All my thoughts of virtue are steered instead towards vice...then his voice
"We can weather this crisis...this...chrysalis
Then we'll emerge monarch butterflies in a world where noble thoughts suffice."

But they don't. Not here...

Here, she's vengeful and persistent and demented and resistant
Her chains are made of iron, she stalks us night and day, she's a shabby straw that went astray...from her mental bale of hay
That threatens to break this camel's back...with her incessant "I'm scorned!" attack
on you, on me, on honor, on ideals...what's more!
To outsiders she's the seraph, and I the Devil's Whore.

But, hold...

I'm not the one whose brain's distorted
I'm not the one who with his best friend cavorted
I'm not the one that in the end will be thwarted
I'm not the one who sheds a thousand fake tears
I'm not the one who'll sacrifice the years
Holding on, sitting tight...waiting on something
That just wasn't right.
I'm not the one who's version and the truth
Never do quite jibe
I'm just the one who let it out now
In this festering diatribe

Alright I don't like fairy dust or bake sales
Or basket weaving shows
So I don't like dressing like a librarian
Or being told which way to go
I am proud and honest
And bold and bitter
Tart and tingly...not big on mingling
But at least with me...it's never a show.

Pity me, pity me...it is the martyr's cry
Such a pity then, that this "martyr" does not die.
Harsh words in this, my diatribe...but you've hit us low
You can't let go...and in my heart, it's past high tide
I still find it so difficult to accept
That even though we've never met
I hold for you, the deepest contempt.

So, fine...

If you want to play Snow White, I'll be the Wicked Queen
You'll cower in fear as I rise to rage's call
And feed you poison apples 'til to your end you fall.
That's what you want, isn't it?
A villainess...to put to death your cowardice.

But rest assured, in this tale, the princess stays asleep.
And it's the Wicked Queen who in the end will keep
Her prince, her dignity, her life...her pride.

 

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© 2007 M Southwell
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
December 2007
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