No Impunity

No Impunity

 

 

you can sever the collusion

but your complement can not be forgiven

 

the one who aided and abetted 

being the concubine

to your tryst's resign

weak inception of tangled hearts

 

as she waits for you in the parlor

a cold fire exuding from her hearth

and your heart now ashes to her

she will laugh over your urn

 

fickle beginnings

make for fickle endings

optimistic intentions only a match

not the consumption of flames

 

now you sit in her chair

smoldering

there are still slight embers

warming

 

but not for you,

the draft is freezing your conscience

 

and your accomplice is on the lam

searching new incisions

to cut her losses

 

that chair is of hard wood

perhaps you and it

could ignite another fire

an object like that

has no conscience, either.

 

 

erin-cilberto

7/16/17

Reviews

[Surya]

Powerful emotion from a cold person it seems....I enjoyed it...:)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Surya.
j.

[Anthony (aka Mr.e)]

Your words strike the mind with deep impressions j., it's a pleasure to read your work...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Mr. e,

j.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Love's victim- cast off- dancing in the flames...Reminds me.."light my fire..."and our love becomes a funeral pyre" so deadly..devil's choreography. "And your heart now ashes to her, she will laugh over your urn"-Genius!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Annette...
appreciate you.
j.

[emmajoy]

Seems there's rather a moody mood burning away here.. too hot to handle, but not in the way usually thought of. You make deep hurt and excessive anger into a maddened flame. Sad in a way that such a skill with phrasing couldn't be diluted to create something beautiful. Perhaps another time, jacob. Powerful, painful..

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, em.
j.

[DIVYA]

The poem cuts to the quick and powerfully portrays the cold , harsh reality of an insincere, uncaring love. I felt some of my old pain come to the fore.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words and relating to this piece, DIVYA...
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Another vitriol filled piece that rants from the page with bared teeth, frothing from the mouth in juicy metaphors. Problem is people, especially politicians and insincere lovers act with impunity.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, John.
j.