The Trials of Meretrix Canto I
When your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be foully whispered within
Dismayed
And abject earshot;
Where salvation for despairing souls
Be so hopelessly betrayed!
Then I wouldst draw ye, Meretrix,
As I should draw a sharpened
Blade,
Fixing you like a point against some
Long forgotten star;
Nightly pushing my jealous eye
Through the convex lens
Hidden within the ground and
Polished jar:
Searching you out, my Meretrix,
So many infinite distances away -
So many, many light years afar!
Thus will I circumnavigate Heavens
Turbulent Oceans...
When Sailing through the convoluted
Worm that coincides
Inside a Gravitons diminished tides
That still grind upon this cluttered
Bar;
An indomitable ship made ready
And waiting,
Pressed hands mustered to do my
Bidding...
And I, Pensive, coldly deliberating...
A man apart,
Pouring over tattered parchments
Revealing a secret and ancient chart.
Let now the keel take the weight
Of the dullened anchor
So her draft may rise upon the
Waves,
Point her midships towards open
Harbour -
Bring down hard the lash
Over the breaking backs of my most
Submissive slaves!
Cast of the hempen Moonbeams
From the creaking capstans -
For tis your Captain that stands
Before all assembled and subjected
Company:-
Beat the drum roll,
Sound the bugle -
Helmsman...Swing abouts her rude
Prow
Into the endlessly, glowering spumes
Of the great, spangled sea!
So wonder ye, Meretrix,
Upon these swelling orbs that
Dutifully and daily undertake to climb;
Igniting the dark shadows
Thrown across alien landscapes
Of such variable and strange design;
Retreating Moons who leer
reflectively
When so forcefully compelled to
Reluctantly shine.
O Majestically rolling spheres
Churning with the intensity
Of a billion flaming desires!
They that penetrate the abysmal
Depths,
They that thrust into the
Secretive lushness of dense and
Verdant shires.
Cosmic furnaces,
Forging thee Essential Elements,
Fueled by self-perpetuating fusion
Pyres;
Spewing forth in Supernova
Explosion -
Amidst immense rage of Heavenly
Fires!
Each spinning on a singular point
Spun by a hidden, and much
Ingeniously confounding,
Far more subtler art.
The fantastic masses an irresistible
Attraction,
Upon all celestial bodies,
Doth, therefore, by effect, hereby
Impart.
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