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Expression in Self-Retaliation
Copyright, Susan
I wrote this sonnet about my boyfriend.
Dedicated to a dimmed Northern Star
Wasting away in sweet mutilation,
Angst from his veins pools on the bruised floor.
Slipping away from his concentration,
His life in my hands, as I lick his sores.
Bittersweet love sheds blood for his sadness;
Staggers through a world of ungoverned pain.
Feigned by illusions and falls into madness,
Life lacks a warmth to desiccate his rain.
But suddenly in darkness and black mist
An innocent light seeps through unknown cracks.
In this pure state your bleeding wounds be kissed,
By never seeking sorrow, this dove lacks.
In this salvation the vast ocean brings,
Complex minds don’t weep, they forever sing.