In Love With Albertine

In Love With Albertine
© Surazeus
2023 08 28

Everyone falls in love with Albertine 
when she strides down the busy city street 
with arrogant disdain for the libertine 
who worships perfect beauty at her feet, 
till she transforms into heart-broken swan 
and sings forgotten tunes on castle lawn. 

Hair coiffed in sprayed waves of the pompadour, 
curvaceous hips slicked with red satin gown, 
Albertine blazes bright through every door 
with grace that excels the most divine clown 
to challenge Aphrodite for her throne 
as Queen of Beauty with new heart of stone. 

Gliding on bright stage in Globe Theater, 
Albertine performs heart-enchanting tune 
on golden harp designed by Lucifer 
whose psychic energy flows from the moon 
to charge her spirit with transcendent power 
that sparks my heart to blossom in the flower. 

Staring at mask of her face in the mirror 
while another spurned lover pounds the door, 
Albertine trembles mute in lonely terror, 
unable to handle fame anymore, 
so she holds the gun to her aching head, 
wondering if she would be better off dead. 

Removing polished face of Albertine 
that hides the frightened orphan girl she was 
before working hard to play the Stage Queen, 
the nameless woman shattered by applause 
leaps through the window of joyful despair 
and rides away on swift galloping mare. 

Wearing trousers and shirt with rolled-up sleeves, 
Albertine tends garden of herbs and worts 
while angels whisper among fruit-tree leaves 
on communal farm where blissful converts 
work for salvation in Heaven on Earth 
with excessive passion of honest mirth. 

Silver mist swirls up from the river shore 
where Albertine wanders in maze of dreams 
till she finds Saturn at Ghost Temple core 
who gazes lost in trance of dreamless seems, 
so she kisses stone lips of the blind god 
while faceless ghosts in mirror hall applaud. 

Alone on empty stage in Church of Tales, 
where laughing skulls of gods watch her perform, 
Albertine weighs our hearts on psychic scales 
to measure success of social reform, 
then flies to Heaven on swan wings of faith 
where she reveals face of the cosmic wraith.