Lady Macbeth (Photo credit: widdowquinn)
You live a tragedy
Like Anna Karenina
Weeping, disconsolate
By the train
You’re so dramatic
Like Lady Macbeth
With wild ambition
No more restrained
Or like Camilla
Le Fanu’s vampire
Leaving every victim
Soulless, drained
Could you please refrain?
Why so histrionic
Like Cathy’s lost ghost
Clawing at windows
In the night
Or Brooding Heathcliff
Ruining families
To revenge
Unforgiven slights
You’re twisted justice
With her blindfold
Robbed of her balance
Without sight
Can’t you see
Oh can’t you see
The flag we’re waving here is white?
Could you please
Give us relief
From your imaginary fight?
I wish you may…
I wish you might…
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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Oh, those Drama Queens!! Couldn’t we all just live without them, at least in real life. They make for interesting reading and watching, though. Great job, Helen!!
Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂
Great poem. I love the Lady Macbeth reference since I immediately began thinking of Ophelia (I think.)
All the Shakespearian heroines probably fit this poem…his plays are so dramatic after all!! Thanks so much!! 🙂
That’s why I stick to his comedies. At least those that I can decipher.
LOL…yes, his comedies are great. 🙂
” Anna Karenina” ironic, I just watched that movie last night:)
Ah, the synchroncity of writing. Did you watch the new movie version – if so what did you think? i found the stylised form a bit jarring at first but by the end it had won me over. 🙂
I did– and for the first third of the movie my hand hovered over the remote in indecision, but then things shifted a bit and I started to enjoy it.
Yes, it was just like that for me..probably only stayed with it because I like Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFaddyen…but it did improve and by the end I really loved it. 🙂
Wow, you know I read this and actually heard it as a song…
Cool, what type of melody/song genre? Your comment is making me imagine it being sung on The Voice…lol….
That’s what I was thinking actually… Great minds
Yes- I agree with Solo: lyrically perfect for a song. 😉 So fun!
Thank you so much….didn’t think of it as a song, but I can imagine the drama would fit quite well with a melody!! 🙂
Great as always. And I think you might now a friend of my! lol Although, I must confess to a Drama Queen moment or two in my life! 🙂
I feel for you if you have a friend like this! Luckily for me I don’t, but I have known a few in my time, LOL. 🙂 I don’t know how they do it, to be frank, it all looks so energetic that it would be exhausting!! 🙂
I get exhausted just being in the room with her. I have to take her in small doses. lol
Excellent! I have known my fair share of drama queens it really is exhausting, I can’t even begin to understand all the mind games which I suppose is a good thing because I am so oblivious that people usually don’t bother playing them or maybe its that I don’t notice lol
That sounds like an excellent strategy for dealing with them I must say. I think my curiosity about people has probably given them too much air time in the past with me, LOL. 🙂
I am only curious about the real person underneath so I filter quite efficiently through the surface stuff
I wrote an incredibly long comment and lost it! Grr… Let’s just say you’ve capture the spirit of the drama queen perfectly, Helen. It’s not fun being around them because they’re like a black hole–no light escapes and their victims are trapped. Good writing!
Thank you – sounds like you’ve suffered your fair share of them then! I agree, they drain the life out of everyone around them!! 🙂