Alien Within

 

Deceiver, wrought with dreams

alien demensia, beyond my loss

a lovers cross

retied and brought together

Indemnities forsaken in my greed

 

How can I describe it

desirous of life, let me be

for all that I contend

and all I'll be

your company leaves, and with it

my first draught of reality

consenting, and yet

put aside

for the normality

 

So insidious is life

 

Then arise, in your 'troth

again I hear your welcome call

forever again, in joyous setting

which belie's your token deed

 

Ascending into urgent matter

oh cusp of honor, decide my fate

recycling drops of ardent measure

you live, and taunt

my thoughts of late

 

Clearly I have no comission

called for, yet unshriven

residing in my one omission

Zenophobe, may lust combat her

 

To be, yet not exist

a frightful mirror I resist

concealing all I am to be

within my self

for what I'm worth

 

COPYRIGHT(c) 1994 Joseph J. Harding III

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