Limbo

 

I experiment with unreasoned curiosity

 

and the shadows have begun

to gather,

     a colony of silence to feast

     like termites on newborn sapling

flesh,

unfettered voracity

on every corner, wall,

     niche - deep

     and dark countless eyes

     an audience to my guilt, to faithless pleas,

my grip in self-pity

contained in jars - collecting my demise...

 

Thoughts wrought

     in sleeplessness

     in self-induced lies

to parlay a quicker journey

opening the floor below

     and breathe envious fire on my halo;

they weigh down my innocence

strength easily lost with

     the multiple wrongs made, because a boy

     does not a man make

to mistake a hard kiss for cherubs' flight

or wake of listless love

     which shake one's soul to cry

 

I ask for forgiveness in the hollowness

     which churns

distant echoes in turn

reply

my captive voice

     so softly fading

     evidence that limbo is thirsty

and waiting...

 

Eternity in a sigh.

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

first of all congrats on your "bronze" ...
wow! back with the hippies i would say with earnestness "Heavy man! Really heavy!" :) you have brought to light thoughts and feelings that are between the layers of sleep and waking ..they startle one awake with anxiety .. your poem tells us why ..your honesty and certain enlightenment are gratifying for me ..the reader .. no wonder you placed in the competition .. well done says i! I believe that "Limbo" is all that .. probably more .. we do pay for our impetuous, dishonest nature when standing before the Light ..a tragedy and a pity we lack understanding God's Love
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[DF]

This is very powerful expression of the guilty conscience awaiting reckoning. The following phrases: "breathe envious fire on my halo" and "and the shadows have begun to gather, a colony of silence to feast like termites on newborn sapling" are especially memorable images. Well written

[Butch Decatoria]

Thank you both so much for reading and insightful reviews, I do appreciate... much love, and peace.