Lady Shakespeare, Arrow Unseen

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Fourlinegraphia-

they call you Lady Shakespeare,

mistaking the voice for a face,

the fire for a form.


With eyes closed,

you release the arrow-

not toward the target,

but toward belief.


Sight would have measured,

named the wind,

taught doubt to pause the hand.

Blind faith chose motion.


The arrow flies on instinct,

cuts air it never saw,

finds meaning only after

it has already arrived.


They praise the woman,

then meet the man,

yet the poem remains untouched,

loyal only to truth.


Call it Lady, call it Lord-

the verse knows neither.

It only knows the courage

to shoot unseen

and trust the silence to answer.


-Fourlinegraphia

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