charm and grace

"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace." - Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind

charm and grace

and what will you do when you find what is real?
will you seek your control and confess what you feel
or lay unfisted hands to accept all the demands
that will bend you, upend you and send you to grace?

and what will you find at the end of the way?
promises perishing in the bittersweet grey?
I have found what I need and for it I will bleed
if required to prove I will stand for my place.

and what will it purpose of nothing is won,
if mocking remains and the stains, the sun,
merely burns to leave scar that marks you as far
from the shores of a siren who turned from your face?

and I will tell you stories of lovers that fell,
of women and men who have battered down Hell
to seek something grander than venom and dander
and found, simply, love without the coward's disgrace.


William F. DeVault. all rights rserved.

From this day forward, I will write all things as if they were to be my last words.

I love you.