posted January 19, 2006 09:55 PM
I've been so downhearted, BabyA year
so downhearted
since the rabid exposure
of our plucking sin
There was no serpant~
a myth, a scapegoat
there was only you
only me
the first~the last
on the earth to discover
Universal-Fire-Magic
tapped from vulnerability
you fled
From the heat
of the wagging fingers
the snide booming thunder
that would never, could never
understand.
(you said that once~
'they will never understand'
what consolation if any is there
in knowing?)
fled so far into
your private cancer-womb
seeking nomadic safety from the
Accusing storm
leaving me alone
to defend the purity of our love
from the blinding inquisition
Sole in a barren world,
too tepid to be chartered
for its winding roads of
hypocrisies and indifference
O, so dark the world became to me!
witheld
ostracised
from the beautiful
sun-stream of your affection
the one and only comfort
that would have saved me
from myself
no other wrath
as completely, aggresively
condemning as such
spoken to myself
Punished so severly
for crimes not understood
an ethereal Being!
too delicate of Soul
to touch feet
on the harsh environment
of this alien world, unchartered, unreal, so oblivious
Muse-less, Devoid
my soul shattered back there
in peices around me
no more fight left in me
without you
to gather them
and form a puzzle-form for face
Shining bare and skinless
for all to see
deep into the core of my naked misery
don't search
whatever hope and promise
still gleams deep in my eyes
my Heart, my nudity is my own
no longer hungerly devoured
or given in that pure Innocence
I once in tender-new time
so naively gave to you
and the hunters with their
self-fulfilling, feasting desires
if only they knew
the harrowed depths of these
winding passageways
and the tortured chambers they lead
I have no armor
to protect me
but this burning love
this most precious belief
slipping more away from
me in the glass shards
of the days
the weight of our forsaken dreams
sliding from my arms
for all my fight, my fiery determined
fight
to hold them
to protect them
Cradled
as sacred
as they were born
in
the innocent freedom of our discovery
Our discovery
so downhearted, Baby...
so downhearted...