Marbled perfection
Skin petrified white
Twisted embrace
Fused love’s desperation
Seeking to be held
Before the gates of
hell
Frozen kiss on stone
cold lips
Blank eyes, forever
shut
In unceasing
penitential prayer
That love would
re-ignite
And grant to a
hardened heart
Redemption of human
touch
Marbled beauty
chiseled
To survive the heat of
hell
Human beauty less
permanent
Sags, withers,
wrinkles
And leaves
Ashes at the gate of hell
The embracing couple depicted in the sculpture
appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell,
commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris.
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