Arisen

Arisen

There’s that wretchedness rising from love’s empty horizon

Cupid’s negligence, the frequent failure by Venus’ son

This denizen pf love’s maze in a drunken phase

Arrows all run awry, he’s a sty in the lonely eye

So switch to “absinthe and opium”, dens of the romantic distraught

Feel the good badness that deadens the sadness

Then move across the careless line and it becomes divine

Declining thinking shines as feeling morphs into reckless time

Now the world’s within, as reality becomes emotion

Island of curses where no satisfaction’s the blight

So grasp for ever more denigrating delights

This crashing soul in tears of acid that can see no light

Why this constant misstep, living with this bloodied lip?

Wednesday’s child’s shield is reality and a rational mind the sword

Stepping up to destroy love’s lonely destiny

And be that prisoner no more