Shining Armour

Deflected love

Shining Armour

I am but eclipsed by the knight

in shining armour to whom

you would trust your soul.

He who has not endured

such blatant faithlessness

but who will hold your faith.

He who has not had to rise

from the ashes

of your mother's destruction,

wrecked beyond my sad demise,

to raise the fruits of love once borne

alone.

Two infants from her loins,

my sad legacy

as you thrice deny me.

But no matter, for in your genes

you were born.

And I am but forgotten as the sun

and the moon

and into the darkness you will

cast my memory,

leave me to wither

upon the vines of disdain

as the swan of your adoration

swims free

and you follow her star.

Oh the juxtaposition

of the knave and the knight!

 

29/06/15

Author's Note

Reviews

[fattycbreezy52]

What a juxtaposition of the knave and knight!
Every word reeking of honesty and pain........Miserable and inexplicable pain!Sounds real to me.But,every poet is aware of sympathy and empathy in his lot........This is tragic.Yet,a great write keeping in mind the fact that it's capable of evoking some serious feelings and emotions!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you FBC and good advice. Poetry is emotion and as such perhaps it should evoke a reaction?

[andrew mitchell]

A sad write John and a painful remembrance for you. However it does happen even in nature when mother animals abandon their young! Just not maternal or paternal

[John Alexander McFadyen]

True Andrew and many thanks as always.

[....................]

hugh, sad, John.... to witness another holding such favour in your child's eyes... your words penetrate the chest and prick the heart; i felt this, though understand I could never feel it as you do... like the title which reminded me of that old saying about falling for shiny things... great write!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I came across an Instagrm post from my daughter in which she questions my sanity and her parenthood then goes on to describe her second step father as her knight in shining armour.

[....................]

(sigh) that is rough... how does a father respond to that?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

My daughter describes it as MY vanity?

[....................]

a father's love seen as vanity... sad

[John Alexander McFadyen]

She takes after her selfish mother. I was left to bring them up after she left me for a public school boy. She has traveled the world, lived the high life and indeed remarried more money yet my daughter sees me failed and her mother a goddess.

[....................]

Some have a very distorted view of what a father's love and sacrifice really mean... it seems she may have been brainwashed by your ex's love of glitter

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Oh yes definitely.

[~]

Knowing that your poems stem from real life, i find myself wishing this was only poetic license.. a great painful write!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yes real life does provide me with a 'rich' seam of emotions. This sprang from my daughter posting two pictures on Instagram. The first was me pulling a face to which she questioned her parentage and the second was of her mother with her third husband whom my daughter labeled as her knight in shining armour.

[~]

ouch... that must have hurt..

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yup but when I point it out to her I am even more of the knave. And she threatens the threads of our relationship.

[sereenaoutloud]

This is a brilliant write laced with pain ...to feel so used by someone then just cast aside.. heart breaking!!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed it is Sereena. Thank you.

[Willard Wells]

Very nice content and imagery which you always seem to have. Thanks for sharing.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Willard.

[wordman]

this is a great write john,enjoyed the read

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you WM, fresh off the bone!