DRAMATIC Monologue Poem: Turtle Doves, by Enas Rashid

Turtle doves
with bleeding hearts
on a Christmas tree,
that sing a swift song
like midnight swallows
for this world washed
in blue sadness,
that drench this December
in their snow-pure
drops of love;
raw & red
like the saint
that froze his tears
and descended from the sky
with his diamonds
into the silver ashes
of gold fireplaces;
growing glimmers
of crystal rivers
on his face
and his fate
to keep this
forsaken– forgotten
cold world–
welcome & warm
like the home
only he alone
will always carry.

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