Excavations - the Antecedents
When sun's last ray falls
A golden leaf on the tongue of the sea
Go not far from hearth and walls
Go not into the dusk O prodigy
And if you dare yield to lure
Of day shut up in you, longing
To frolic on the edge of night
Beware the solitary demure
Beware the changing of the light
It was such an eve, a lonely eve
A long, long time ago
My mother's home I chance to leave
For that sandbed was the show
The place boys gather with their innocence
Wrapped in the uncontested fiction of pride
It was there with wanton arguments
The world seduced the spirit bent
There to the sandbed going
She met me in the way
What iron purpose echoed in my ear
What thrall overcame the ritual
I led about soothing the despair
I never caused, but could not bear.
From the candy store to now
From the leash and lash of eyes
Stalking me from crevice and window
From the sultry passion
Sweet with delectable drops of lies
I could not repel the invasion
I could not break the ties
And O the facade she made, the lies
That spelled the hopes of all
The tyranny in which the heart exist
The addiction, the pain perfuming pall
For her body was a drug to me
And her spirit lust for gore
She sucked the sinews and the dream
Left me droughted to the core
And it was over, when resistance was done
I was only curious spectacle
A shivering shadow in the sun.
Copyright © L'Nass Shango | Year Posted 2009
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