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Hawthorne’s Screaming Statue, Beaming Red Liberty
By Matthiasrising
25 April 2008
One token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"

Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness.  Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.  The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.  Shame, Despair, Solitude!  These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"


Though I did indeed play on Hawthorne's topic matter, this is not about the book.
Though it was a good read.
I venture to ask if you, the thoughtful reader, will look for something significant in this.

I welcome and ask sincerely for commentary of all nature.


..
<apologies for lack of activity.. school is a drag>

Having ripped off the scarlet letter from her blouse,

I’ve beat her curse into my chest as a bleeding beacon of freedom.

Dancing to the revelations blaring in my phones,

I’m following Pearl as she heads deeper into the dark wood.

Sun calling down from above, weaving through the trees

Bathing me in the wild light:

Every day under the blessing of Ra is a day closer to you.

I want to bathe in you.

 

I’ve been so lost, digging around on a piece of the cold ground;

Looking in my reflection, I’ve seen a patina form over my eyes.

Eyes of a skeptic rusted in place deep within my head.

Now the sun has risen over where I stand, alone.

Oh Jesus, I am the blind man; where do I stand?

Set your sun ablaze to wash away the cruel oxidation.

My lone prayer, dust in the wind, took to wings of lightning through the blue skies,

And set my soul on fire when I looked up over the answer.

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