HeartLines

A Sacred Heart University Student-Run Literary Magazine

“Will He Giveth Thyme” – Paige Soden

Ten Years my Senior and A man indeed.

Please darling nevermore unfrown today,

the lust of her touch always makes me bleed.

Certes my love we shall travel to Frey!

Envision skies of Lily’s You and I,

Forbid baby blues allowance to stay.

I won’t understand why she had to Fly.

But our Dearest, I still delay and pray!

Continuing as His Analysis,

Defining into His terms, He persuades

To ease the babe I drank since the chalice

Not to reap the benefits of His aid.

I may endure once more, perhaps next time,

A baby shall enter with a fixed Thyme.

Now she is to cry but then she was to laughter

No fear even when all was quite a disaster

Life Swarmed with Tactics and Sin

All of the Guilt, but she went along with a Grin

As Time Goes on, the Unease creeps round

She could Never stand too Close to the Ground

She would even ask to forget

Oh PLEAse, PLease, please with All Regret

Now she will call out for a Double

The Jobs, the Bills, the Majors in daily struggle

Pounds were gained, books went unread

Hair not fastened and never made the Bed

She always comes up ill but never Dead

But she would not be happy with this instead

Because, in several years, no Blood would be Shed

And untroubled memories would prevail instead

To Enjoy the simple coffee and covers in Bed

And the everlasting kiss from my love on my forehead

My Foundation was Rotten Abuse

Each Day in Every Year

I Y earned for the Impulse of Safety

To Stop the Punctures, the Yells, the Multicolored Drugs

It Never came to Cease

Till the Day the Red Rose Baby was in My Arms

I looked at Her with Grace and Honesty

To Preserve Her would be my World

For She Had saved Mine

To Watch Her Mouth Coo and Her First Steps Waddle

She Rouses My Own to Do the Same

To Pick Up and Depart

To Assemble More than I had Ever Intended

For Her, I Shall Move those Mountains

For Her, I would be the Stone to Step Upon

To Get Away as I had not Dared

For the Sparkle in Her eyes had then Made Mine

So for now, we Make Our First Steps

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