the lady and her lover (part 1)

[alicia_h]

the lady and her lover
have their place and their time
the church on sunday
under guise of religion and respectability
they lose themselves among the congregation
their lord knows nothing of them
until the year's first holy day

she comes down dressed in green
the stark voice of spring
against the winter white
he clad in servile garb
of brown and fearful obsequies
for the fallen lord
now returned in health to claim his marriage bed

Comments

[wytchcroft]

i love how in evoking a previous time the piece actually seems to have come from the possible past. it has a real 'out of time' quality and its brevity is a boon to that.

[alicia_h]

Thank you, my friend! Of course this is greatly influenced by Matty Groves/Little Musgrave. While I wrote this, I was considering retelling the whole song but I broke off due to a combination of outside distractions and knowing it was right to let it break off there.

Another idea that arose from preserving the brevity of this piece was one of perhaps revisiting the theme with different (would-be) couples.

[wytchcroft]

that song... i don't think it will ever fail to inspire me, and i love that pentangle you've posted of course :)