Another Cockroach (poem) by Mark Sebring on AuthorsDen

Another Cockroach
by Mark Sebring → (All Poetry by Mark Sebring)
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Rated "G" by the Author.

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Another Cockroach Sometimes the cockroach doesn't die. Sometimes he just crawls away, hides silently in the darkness, and comes back another day. As I embark upon my futile quest ⬅ to right all wrongs and locate the grail, I'm aware that a cockroach named Lancelot has stayed behind, and is creeping around the castle with intentions of wooing my Guinevere. Ah, but it's an innocent relationship (they say), like David's friendship with Bathsheba. He only wants to talk to her, likes her portraits, wants to watch her bathing, and be with her whenever he can. And she - she wants to be with him too, as innocently as before, though she denies it. She tries to keep it a secret from herself and me. So now, the writing's on the wall. Some great calamity will eventually come of this. Nothing can stop it. Someone is bound to get hurt. History always seems to repeat itself for poor Guinevere. She never seems to learn her lesson. She never recognizes her mistake. And I - I just continue on, doing my best to keep her happy, trying hard to conceal my sorrow and fear, especially my fear of cockroaches. That's why I always say that the only good cockroach is a dead cockroach. I don't think I'll ever find that stupid grail. Mark Sebring (2011) " And now I must needs mention that friendship that existed betwixt Sir Launcelot and Queen Guivere, for after he returned to the Court of the King, they two became such friends that no two people could be greater friends than they were. Now there have been many scandulous things said concerning that friendship, but I do not choose to believe any such evil things of others. And no one hath ever said with truth that the Lady Guinevere regarded Sir Launcelot otherwise than as her very dear friend. Wherefore I choose to believe only good of such noble souls as they." Howard Pyle (The Story of King Arthur and His Knights)