SACRIFICIAL LAMB ; My Innocence
Sometimes I let the liquid spill over my lip on purpose
it runs over and under
to my chin,
until I wipe it away
as I imagine
as I play
My hands don’t do much good
to hold the cup near my face
because they tremble in fear
as my eyes stare,
they stare at that place.
My head does not tilt,
as one would to gulp the last
My tongue does not taste as would yours
instead it shrivels back rejecting...
rejecting the ghoulish wine
mine has brung to me
Sometimes I let the blood flow,
on purpose down my lip
one single drip
as I remove the cup from my mouth
My eyes still fixated on the growing grotesque evil
My mind still warped by its intelligible crys of righteousness
My limbs still frozen as if in a timeless frame
BY THE FACE OF MY FATHER I’VE FORGOTTEN MY NAME
My eyes still fixated in that stare
My mouth sticky with the sacrifice
My soul to blame for the murder
in longing and in acts
...but I hate this
as if I hate this
so I lunge at the BASTARD
The fear within swelling to a grin
as I thrust my minds I towards death’s groom
... How could I live without her,
her sweet svelte petals
her tame merciful core
her great securing love...
I meet him with sharp unadulterated pain unleashed
he stumbles
beneath
me
he watches for my next attack
blow for blow he counters me
We can’t hide
living in the same mind
so we try
to rip one another out
to toss aside
like the giblet of a chicken
but neither can win
there will be no winner
He brandishes a dark cloak and exits wearing its frame
to camouflage into the vast emptiness of my mind
until we meet again....
............,
Copywright 1994 Nov. 8
There is so much here, more than a poem, a three acts tragedy still going on in that mind. Wow!
ReplyDeleteWow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It left me speechless for a while.
Thanks Rosaria, now I'm the one that's speechless :)
ReplyDeletethe first stanze looks like a person's profile!
ReplyDeletei hope not JJ :)
ReplyDeleteI wish I had anything brilliant to say about this. In all honesty, poetry is one of the easiest ways to make me shut up. I never know how to respond to it.
ReplyDeleteNo worries JAL, you just being here is enough :)
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