The Trials of Meretrix Canto Ii
So! Now then begins thy fearful
Straits
As scourged by cruel, licentious
Birch
Thou whilst surely delate:-
All that now is...
And all that has gone before,
All you once were...
And are now no more!
For liken to the widening socket
That doest so inwardly turn -
So submit thee, Meretrix,
To the reluctant passions
That likewise discern:-
Off all the demands uttered by
Command -
Spoken through the whip -
Wielded by the master's hand!
The hunting pulse it quickens now -
It stirs the beating heart!
As harder still,
And louder yet,
Confounding upon you with all my
Vile mischiefs -
My cruel exhortations I shall so
Impart!
For streaming through your
Stumbling thoughts
You do but hope to dare:-
Of a steadfast sanctuary built
Offering clemency...
While finding blessed peace and
Mercy there!
For I would lead you, Meretrix,
When bound to me and tightly
Chained.
I would possess you, Meretrix,
Throughout forbidden pleasure and
Sharply raking pain!
I would bend you,
Shape you,
Heap upon you...
Your mortal frame tightly restrained.
For what is ever truly lost,
My meretrix,
If never truly gained?
Speak now...Confide in me...
Tell me...What is in a name?
Baptized unto thou by blessings of
Holy waters;
Sanctified in the warm glow and
Reverence of the most sacred flame;
Chosen by an all embracing mother;
Coldly chiseled into a crumbling
Family shrine.
Does the eroding legend boast of
Greatness
Or heroic deeds sung high?
Does it weigh heavily against the
Titanic feats
Of the mighty and Divine?
For again...
I would lead you, Meretrix,
Through the drawing darkness and
Drumming rain.
I would possess you, Meretrix,
At my idle leisure
When you are deceived from all
Self-deluded feign.
I will chastise you,
Drag you sobbing through fiery
Firmaments high
Whilst your pitiful laments carrying
Upon a desolate wind.
For can even the purest of Gentiles,
My Meretrix,
Lawfully claim to have never sinned?
Know now your keen soul will soon
Fatigue to falter,
And all familiar objects shallst fade
To dim;
Where all rushing fancies stall to
Burden -
When the heaving lungs conspire
To thin!
When astral Helios renegades and
Tumbles
Refuting all the principles of
Universal laws...
Then, perchance, will defiant
Moonlight,
Splintering into crystal fragments -
Shatter hopelessly over blue Gaias
Waveless shores!
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