The Cloak of Wilde

This week for the Saturday “Literary Prompt,” the Rattling Bones provides a signature line from Oscar Wilde:

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

(The Importance of Being Earnest)

You affect an air of

indifference

the cloak of Wilde

draped upon your languid form.

You write of

grief, but never mourned.

You write of

experience, but never lived.

You write of

passion, but never loved.

You write of

caresses, but never touched.

You write of

me, but never cared.

Written before the caffeine of that first coffee kicked in.

@ phylor 2015

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