POETRY: "OPHELIA'S REQUIEM, A POEM IN THREE ACTS

OPHELIA'S REQUIEM, A POEM IN THREE ACTS
II.
"BURIED PROMISE"

Look!

After my sun lied

After my tears dried

After my soul died

The darkness 

Made love to me. 

The ground enclosed me.

And I am there. 

I am rooted

I stand naked

And tied.

Remember!

I still hold 

Onto your memories

Which "I have longed

Long

To redeliver". (*)

The time of my rise

I will breath you in

Like I own you

My life.

Turn around!

Let me see

Those eyes

Those celestial eyes

Before I devour them.

~A

(*): Ophelia's words when she attempted to return Hamlet's letters. Also known as "the nunnery scene" Hamlet mistreats Ophelia and demands to commit herself in a nunnery, either a monastery or a brothel (in Elizabethan English). This heated tête-à-tête was the first and the last one between the two characters; Hamlet kills Ophelia's father believing he was Claudius and then, he departs for England. Ophelia gets mad and drowns or kills herself by water. Ophelia's maltreatment throughout the nunnery scene is probably another reason she loses her mind. Her bawdy songs before she dies narrate her deflowering and erotic frustration by her lover-- Hamlet.