DIRECTIONS--updated

DIRECTIONS

Sharp turns and cutting edges
Through Life’s fire
A heart bleeds for divine protection
A soul burns in hell’s desire
And affection
Voices dying in holy litany
Hollow echoes in return

Pleasure and pain
Ecstasy and mortification
Of Flesh and Senses
All the same
Different directions

Sin and burning attrition
Lost in our humanity
Trapped in our own contradiction
No roads to redemption
Let Innocence plea
A meal for the gods
A Holocaust
We

Strike with Promethean steel
Into the heart of Infinity
Let Eternity feel
Your special fire
Your singular direction

— Geremia, Apr 10, 2010

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Critiques

Seren

16 years 2 months ago

Dearest Joe

there is a subtle power in your words and its a wonderful poem ... only one thing you got an extra 'o' in Promethean ... love and hugs your Jayne-Chloe x x x

Nordic cloud

16 years 2 months ago

Impressive strength

Ann of Norway Jayne puts it right, that "subtle power" that's true Jayne, all he expresses has that impressive strength in it. Maybe all directions lead to the place where we stand. Like the jets belching out their fiery clouds in all directions, they are going straight but round the earth within it cocoon of space, within its atmosphere, and they would end up where they started too. And like the litany's hollow echoes they return to us again. I like the knitting you have made here Joe, its full of fire and brimstone, and particularly yours. Annuccia

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