Unholy, I decompose from the inside
Appetites whose mere acquisition desecrates
Like Jekyll’s proclivity to Hyde
By my own omission I have summoned The Fates
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Is there a hell more terrible than the one I have made?
Upon my word this beast within I will not defy
From all that is messianic and decent I have strayed
Place your hands in my chest and you’ll find my heart bone dry
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I will never change, lay you, pitiful martyr to rest
From your veins there is much that need would bid me take
Is your pride such that you would give without protest
To a godless son for whom no intention can remake
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Time will not extract upon my aesthete a worthwhile love
A Judas, your virtues laid bare are mine to betray
Those pretty words wasted, I am unworthy of
Those that would wear the puppeteer’s strings I shall cast away
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It is the chase, not the fulfillment of predation
Innocence that defies corruption through denial
Run and if you must leave me to die of starvation
Do not volunteer that which I have not earned through trial
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Unholy, I decompose from the inside
Appetites whose mere acquisition desecrates
Like Jekyll’s proclivity to Hyde
By my own omission I have summoned The Fates
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(Quatrains are one of my favorite forms. I don’t have much experience with them though, this is my only my second Quatrain Tern lol When I was in kindergarten I had it in my head that rhyming was like a word association game so I was forever calling out the first thing that popped into my mind whenever the teacher asked for a rhyme, I am still a bit like that rhymes don’t really jump out in my mind so I find it challenging haha I took the photo this time!)
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Very powerful! 🙂
Thanks
i like the refrained quatrain…the decomposing from the inside as that def happens and works its way out in some peoples lives…it feel like one that really struggles feeling worthy….
Thank you Brian I think many of us struggle feeling worthy and I know so many people who believe that they have monster inside of them, that their thoughts are so much worse than other peoples even when in reality they aren’t actually so different
Powerful writing. Though we all have that unholy monster lurking within us, we also have a counter balance of infinite beauty.
Absolutely =)
“Is there a hell more terrible than the one I have made?” love this line. Reminding us all that we are responsible for the cause/effect relationship of our actions/inaction.
Thank you and absolutely =)
Powerful write 🙂
Thank you Celestine =)