Bench by the Barn
by RC DeWinter
Title
Bench by the Barn
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Copyright 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
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A Yorkshire Tale
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Tossed out in the wilderness of rockstrewn moors,
the girl who was meant for a rich man's wife and the boy
who didn't belong there
Found in the other a twin.
Alike in their minds but different in longings
they twined their fortunes, they said, for all time.
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For she wished his freedom and he for her birthright,
Then could he be that rich man and she the wife of him that
he'd become.
So it was settled.
His fortune would be her cloak of freedom,
Her promise his dream made flesh.
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And, if escape to the vast open spaces in which
they lived their lives was impossible, they sat, the two,
seeming decorous
On the bench by the barn,
Outwardly appearing only to have met by chance
in the bustle of a busy day.
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But who could know their plottings and their dreams?
They pledged silence until time's turning wheel would
free them - finally -
To make a pair.
But the girl who was meant for a rich man's wife
And the boy that didn't belong there -
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Alas for them, their twinship split asunder.
Time's turning wheel, in its infinite treachery of
unpredicted change
Dissolved the bond.
No more the laughing escapades,
The bench by the barn is abandoned. ~ copyright 2011 RC deWinter - with gratitude and apologies to Emily Bronte
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Vintage style photograph shot April 10, 2011 in Haddam Neck, Connecticut.
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April 15th, 2011
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