SOLD: Lily Pad No. 251

Well, great, I'd finally stopped crying for the day and now I think I'm going to again.

Your

Poetry is sublime, I think I may have to read them all :-)

To toddski28 and lesseeloovespeter

To toddski28: This one's autobiographical, and although I cried while writing the verse, with each subsequent reading I smile at the idea of a fairytale gone wrong. I guess "SOLD: Lily Pad No. 251" was my way of flipping the bird to memories of my mother and other authoritative mother figures attempting to force me to seek the Black version of the "knight in shining armor." Of course, and rather conspicuously, I was inspired on an aesthetic level by Monet's impressionist series of paintings of his pond and gardens at Giverny.

To lesseeloovespeter: I wept while composing this poem because the visuals that crept into my mind during evoked the melancholy (as opposed to blunt-force sadness) that I have experienced -- and which many women, men and transgender people have experienced when loving someone was not reciprocated. I am not referring to limerence, which is one-sided, though the consequences of that are hurtful, too. My lesson, and that for all who are reading this response on Literotica, is the emotional pain often is the price of loving someone. But, oh, what pleasure to be reminded that we are alive!

todski28 ...

I apologize for misspelling the first part of your username. :