Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" - Week Two

The Death of Madame Bovary:

Poisoned by Desire, she suffered in vain.
No hope for satisfaction, her lacking remained.
Filled with dreams of twilight and a heart ever vexed,
The object of her eyes left her in doomed regret.

Blindly seeing a life unreal, reality moves on.
Like water to a dessert, where did she belong?
Complete with everything but wanting nothing,
What could this life offer that was worth her living?

Trapped by the one who glorifies lust,
only Death could remove her from what she could not become.
For one can not elude the shadow of what is not.
Close your eyes fair maiden, have you forgot?

 Madame! Madame! Blind, the beggar was not.

                                                          -DP (Daydreaming Poet)

"We will always long for forbidden things, and desire what is denied us."

     - Froncois Rabelais