How lovely the legend
Somehow, though I'd known of the obvious myths
Involving Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White
And this long while
Resisted
Today in the aftermath, shockingly, it's clear
Another somehow
Has persisted
Not bold to the rescue, the lover the prince
Driven by beauty and lust
But fierce as a tiger
The power of the sun
From day of conception, surrender to none
The roar and the rage and the life-giving must
Surely the love of the mother's a spell
Magic omnipotent
All, all will be well?
Oh wishful and wanted and would it were so
The might of the mother to right all the wrong
To cradle, protect, indestructibly strong
How lovely the legend, the story, the myth
In spite of all reason, that haunts
And persists
10th February 2011, Bondi
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