I Want My Mummy

you robbed me of my reign

leaving me for dead

on the river vile

my heart in your clay jar

body filled with the oil of deception

wrapped in the linen of your lies

laid to rest in your two-faced sarcophagus

at least i have my pyramid in the sky

built with the tears i cried

soul cleaned, pressed and dried

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Reviews

[barleygirl]

Details I love: "mummy" (play on words) . . . "robbed me of my reign" (alliteration) . . . "river vile" (clever play on words) . . . "linen of your lies" (alliteration) . . . sarcophagus & pyramid (weaving metaphor threads) . . . & your rhyming in the last verse. Your extended metaphor is banging, of the caliber of Jacob the metaphor-meister himself! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Pete]

lol. thanks. what was i thinking? i don't know, these things just come - what are we to do? it just spills out ...