#LaceChallenge by Steve Richards

Lady of Lace

She was in life

A Lady of Lace

Delicate features

Porcelain face

In youth she wore

Such daring fashions

Lace topped stockings

Inciting passions

Flared out skirts

With tiny waist

And petticoats

Of finest lace

Stiletto heels

Kidskin gloves

Looking her best

For the man she loves

Nights of desire

Nights of joy

Nine months later

A baby boy

Wrapped and swaddled

Tiny red face

Peering out

His shawl of lace

Adoring doting

Mother proud

Shows him off

To all around

Then puts away

Her youthful clothes

Gives up her dreams

For now she knows

Her life has changed

Profoundly so

As through the years

She sees him grow

Into a man

Both big and strong

Her thoughts recall

A past long gone

Of dances

And a life fast paced

When she stepped out

In finest lace

She opens the drawer

Of her worn nightstand

And carefully removes

With frail hands

Her youthful clothes

That she’d kept all along

Lays down with them o’er her

Smiles and is gone

She rests in her coffin

I kiss her and sigh

Pull down her veil

And say my goodbye

In death as in life

A Lady of Lace

Delicate features

Porcelain face

©Steve Richards 2014

(Picture – Pinterest, source @Elizabeth Messina statigr.am.com)

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