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Ivan the Terrible and his Son - Canvas Print 1000 Words Contest.
The boy looks up,
essence subsiding,
says
“You will not be forgiven
for this.”
For if God comes down to crimson thick;
pooling on the floor, around the skin,
he’ll cry depravity.
Ivan the terrible crouched by the mantlepiece;
holding only one word,
“Indeed.”
“Beat the stomach of the whore
that child
stays forever young.”
Shame.
And in another life you fled to the mountains
stopped poison rings round Mother’s cup
infection taking Father’s leg.
Learnt love.
learnt life.