Literature
lucrezia s father
Lucrezia's Father
Lucrezia sat in her innocence,
naked body laced with beads of water
running races down her back,
forming pools at the finish line
on smooth rocks at the pond's edge,
enveloped by the sound of loneliness.
And she swore she saw the water ripple
from the center out to the edges
every time cannons fired in the distance,
though she knew there had been no fighting for years,
and that the day it stopped
was the day he never came home again.
Lucrezia's tears rolled off her pale cheeks
and danced with the pond water
that was dabbled on her soft skin,
creating the sweet smell of beauty in the air,
even though there w