Spirituality's Dead Flowers
Spirituality's conceptions bleed
organisation into life and death,
and I sketch a circle close to these lips,
transgression took my father's name; Adam.
A lifetime away from deliverance,
I stalk morality as juggled shapes
become a blur of cold insanity -
divinity screams inanimate sin.
Insensitive moi, I flick eyes towards
trust in a God I'm not sure is alive.
Personality's artistic beauty
shatters into other wild dimensions,
reality's dirt under fingernails,
fits of coughs that send stars on a journey
around aches of timeless relaxation.
Perhaps I'm a fraud in a world of frauds,
just like you I stumble through existence,
crack smiles against pleasure's fragile escape.
Dead flowers perfume the anguished domains,
but when happy I twist into bright light.
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Submitted on August 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 122 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
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