Siege
Weasel words, traitors,
your raucous din inside me
rattles along the stout door,
the one preceding the purgatorial fire.
My weakened wall, your canvas,
circuitous is the route to flee,
a gasp of air… assumed camaraderie,
my slide into fallacy begins.
Unheeded as the entreaty for truce goes,
an absolute veto I lift – proof of my constancy.
To immure myself is not an alternative.
Honestly, I wonder if this my sanity can keep.
Falling wide
Lefenthea Maria Golgaki
Lefcothea Maria Golgaki (Λευκοθέα Μαρία Γκολγκάκη) comes from Greece where she is a published book author, script writer and playwright. Internationally, she has contributed to four poetry collections published by Scars Publications, The Poet, and Adelaide Literary Magazine. Some of her poems, flash fiction stories and essays have been featured in Bright Flash Literary Review, Flash Fiction North, The Penwood Review, Balestra Magazine, Candlelit Chronicles, Uppagus, Litbreak Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brazen Head, The Daphne Review, The Stray Branch, The Cannon's Mouth, Aphelion, Eskimo Pie, Mediterranean Poetry, Twist & Twain, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Sentinel and Tri-Town Tribune.