Picture credit: “The Last Door of Bluebeard” by David et Myrtille

 

Bluebeard’s Folly

All women, watching, waiting;

Men, the ancient foe,

Bluebeardian force,

without conscious origin,

failed magician,

archetypal shard,

break the rules of Death,

as Lucifer dared to venture beyond,

to contravene nature.

In them, desire,

loftier than Life and Death,

loneliness washes over him.

 

© Bluebeard’s Folly 2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

taken from page 41 – Women Who Run With the Wolves

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes