The Scarlet Cupboard

This little poem was most definitely influenced by both Christina Rossetti and early Emily Dickinson.


There is a scarlet cupboard
     Inside a scarlet room,
Whose door is locked
And cracks are sealed:
     A silent, scarlet tomb.

It stands in scarlet penance
     While days and nights dance by
With lilting or
With ponderous step
     Till earthly time shall die.

Then shall its door be opened
     And all its content known;
The scarlet notes
And scarlet knots
     To judging eyes be shown.


© Leticia Austria 2007