Temptations Wanton...."flesh!?"
Listen no more to these words I speak
Whenever they have been preceived to be
Dipped into the tissues cup, of bitten agains tainted truths....
Hear me sigh this breath of deepened remorse
Within these pangs of fleshes amissful regrets?!
So turn from me, if beyond my soul your eyes have met
My plague; my thorns; buried in these broken bones
This slashing upon my face
That from my birth has maimed my very world....
These splinters, of my own frailties of weakness
Tantalizing and piercing, innocent and beautiful hearts!?
But I did not ask for this curse I said
And as Paul once did, many centuries long ago
I pled with "My Father," to please remove this from my sorrows
Oh that I would have been born a crippled or disfigured I pondered
Rather, than to hold these temptations scars....
So please, turn from me if within this mirror you see
The sickles of carnals slaughtered
Rising from the ashes of its smitten burning pit?!
For all I have ever longed for in this life
I have watched crushed, by the image of this reflection
Which buries it blade deeply and unremittingly
Into this why me paved heart....
This portrait of pretty; which melts within its bidden pain
Since the days that I can remember; the crumbling of stars before my sight
Dissolving my spirit, into this crows foot cauldron
Of the bewitching darkness' very own brew!?
There is only one hope within this life I find
And it shall never be found, within this enigmatic skeletals body....
Break these fetters and shatter these eyes "Dear God;" these orbs
Shackled; that I may live, beyond the burning of this rotting corpse?!
Listen no more to these words I speak
Whenever they have been perceived to be
Dipped, into this grave of the craddles repose
The temptations of hades wanton, and, bloodied....
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...."Flesh!?"
Copyright © John Rhinem | Year Posted 2009
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