Curious Mind

Mary
by Henry B Stevens
5/7/2004

Unfit, Mary Marconi
sits alone. head bowed
while the fit edge forward
to receive the sacrament.

Divorced, alone,
Mary thinks about her
annuled remarried husband
while crying softly.

Mary watches the lines
form, receive, and disperse
knowing the lines in
her face have been her downfall.

Devout, caring, believing
her marriage secure
until young smooth skin
broke the holy matrimony.

Mary unequivocally
trapped by church law
she cannot change,
remains unfit forever.


(Mary is not the real name. It's Agnes, Joyce and Dawn; that I personally know of. You can no doubt put real names in place of Mary. This is not an uncommon story.)