Ceremony
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i have come to pray ...
snip, blow, extract, fold, place
in veneration of your utter authority ...
the nakedly honest appreciation
of the deific pedestal i exalted you to
all those many years ago ...
such sorry, sad observance that
this is still the one undeniably consistent time in each
day's happenings when I find myself
perfectly, (pathetically), at peace ...
i yet breathe
because of your command
the lilt of your song in my blood -
the searing of my marrow
your sour bite ...
seventeen dozen moons
have danced blue a-cheek the sea
e'er you granted me
resurrection and carelessness' cure
nonetheless, i curse your
wet waste 'neath my tongue
half a lifetime
wishing on wonders that never came
ruined receptors cackling at
my freakish folly -
imprecating dreams to happy hell for
but an essence of
your origin ...
i damn your bitter relic
your frigid, damp, fleshy husk
I despise your screeching yawns and salty seep -
hourly demons sent to mock me ...
restless reminders of my deadliest error
the neurological nanytes
that play like hammers upon my ache
and bleed vitality ...
you are a sweet lie
i, the trembling lips to give it whisper
how i beg heaven for your
cessation, yet i fear most the beast i might become
should your kiss not offend my mouth
with its caustic, melting madness
and perhaps, in deference to this realization
i am already ...
dead.
( This is a form I invented called "FREE 45", and is a FREE VERSE poem which MUST be introspective and personally revealing, must contain NO capitalized letters, and must be made up of stanzas with either an increasing OR decreasing amount of lines between one and nine, so either one-thru-nine lines, or nine-thru-one lines, simply )
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden | Year Posted 2021
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