Queen Of All That Is



I am happy, restless and strong,
And I will not defend the darkness any longer.
For too many years, you have kept me still
With your purse-lipped judgment and smooth disapproval,
Your competitive need to be Queen Of All That Is.
Creative
In your sly, seditious ways
You apprehend and ooze honey,
But it is poison
From your mouth with forked tongue
To the ears who beg to hear
A little gossip in the grain,
A little flaw in the wings of angels,
And they gobble it up like Turkish Delight.

The seed sown, you now sit on your throne,
Safely encompassed in the garden you've grown...
The stinging nettle, the hawthorn,
The barbed rose vines, the belladonna,
The deadly nightshade.
But the vines will rend and choke one another,
And then you, my dear.
You will be consumed,
And all the acid from your tongue
Will never be enough
To burn your path to freedom.

And I, liberated, sanctified, bathed in sunlight,
Am free from it all, and I take my leave,
And I have not altered a hair on my head,
Or on yours.

About this poem

We have all known someone like her. Sometimes she is Mother. Sometimes she is Sister or Aunt, or even Daughter. Sometimes we foolishly call her "friend". We may wish these toxic people harm, but I've found that if we just wait patiently, their own actions will come home to roost, and we won't have to lift a finger.

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Written on February 20, 2020

Submitted by KrissLuckett on September 20, 2021

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXXXXXBXCXXXD EEXBXAXXCXX DXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 974
Words 186
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 14, 11, 4

Kriss Luckett

Songwriter, amateur poet, professional performing musician. I'm also an artist, and "mom" to an amazing 12 year old son. I live in Indianapolis, IN with my husband and son (who are my musical partners), and a ridiculous number of pets. I'm a self-employed massage therapist, and have owned my own business since 2015. In my rare spare time, I like to kayak, camp, and bake, and I collect vinyl records. I have been a performing musician for 32 years, with roots in punk and alt-rock and modern folk. My non-musical writing has been mostly for my own personal enjoyment, but I am broadening my scope of exposure, and hope to publish at some point. I have recorded 6 albums in my music career, with aspirations of recording a solo record at some point in the near future. My inspiration comes from my own experiences, the experiences of friends and characters, musings on the state of the world and life in general, and stories I make up. I am not a "look out my window and ponder the flowers" sort of writer, although there's nothing wrong with that. I began writing for enjoyment in high school, when I had a teacher who recognized my penchant for writing "dark stories", and encouraged me to keep at it. I grew up in small town Indiana, where "girls just don't write such things", so I have kept most of my edgier writing to myself. This is the first place I've published anything that wasn't songwriting. Hope you enjoy my work. more…

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