Donald Ward
Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
Childhood spent in an orphanage and foster homes,
died suddenly and unexpectedly?
Who first did you smile at
when first you gazed
at the first lord of the halcyon days
with eyes that never quite betrayed
but seemed to float just out of reach.
Almost as innocent you seemed
(who can define the undefined),
palms touched your brow
and silence dreamed
while angels settled in your eyes
as innocence so undefined
charmed the vision of the real?
An angel smiled and Gabriel* sighed.
If in the chasm of your soul
innocent you almost were
unconscious, and yet conscious of
a kind of love that you might fear.
Woman-child not meant to die
so soon, so silent in the night –
what you were then, so are you now:
the goddess never lost to man.
* Angel of mercy
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