a placid evening sky ebony black

                                                          Credit: ESA/Hubble; Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger 
                                                                     (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA 
Image: Relayed Hubble picture (here)

the 12 given words:
searching, door, story,
placid (serenely free of interruption or disturbance)
ebony waiting beneath hoping palm asleep powder cake

searching the conscience
the door to myriads of possibilities
with lots of stories to tell

a placid evening sky ebony black
darkly in shadows of guilt
not really aware
but waiting beneath heaven's
care hoping with all sincerity

can feelings of guilt be palmed down
by a mere utterance of denial?

one may be asleep in powdered
dreams caked in protective garb

still, it was no way to treat a lady
she deserved a fair hearing!

MMT's Sunday's Whirligig #137
Lillian's at d'Verse -  looking up