The Dire Mistress Poem by Robert F Estrada

the dire mistress assails
she pursues a mans carmine sustenance
becalm her
with reality
with reason
in order to pacify her passion

If in need
desperately
become anointed, seek inner peace
join willingly with the angel
belong and recite with her
during her reaping song

hovering voraciously
over the carnage
a sliver haired woman
does appear
she is caped in gracing darkness
emitting reverential fear

a wanderer
stands alone
unmoved after observing this slaughter
he stands upon
a vast battlefield
located in the valley of desertion

the death angel
now recites in finality
she will impose
the wanderer
blankly listens
accepting his sentence with repose

before
termination
the wanderer is permitted
a last request
in hapless agony
he asked his wife to be spared

“Flee”
“my willowy wife”
“Become expedient”
“Alter thy motion”
“seek the safe albatross”
“in tranquil, translucent flight”

Long
vibrant moments
the dire mistress
performs her duty
O, how regretfully
the moan
of her singing scythe

Last being
perished
the mistress soon vanished
Valkyries
ferried souls away
leaving that undulating plain of silence

The willowy wife?
She was portioned
by flight
her winged sprouts
sultrily she laughs
avoiding the plight