04-03-2022, 12:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-03-2022, 12:14 PM by RiverNotch.)
Sins committed in love, excess or deficient, are forgiveable
to an extent in the eyes of man -- in the eyes of God, to none.
What has the eye heard? What has the ear seen?
Can the hand taste? Can the tongue conceive?
Will the heart report
how every muscle's accustomed to contort
straining chain and leather, shattering bone,
there in the dark when one is left alone
and full of unchaste fire, full of longing---
Is it greed to want you all to myself?
Is it pride to delight in your achievements?
Is it envy to want you, and keep wanting you,
even when you speak
proudly and happily of your attachment
to another? Am I moth
drawing by instinct so close to a light
already the tips of my wings ignite
or am I the damned pilot
willfully catching the long arm of a storm
to reach the eye?
to an extent in the eyes of man -- in the eyes of God, to none.
What has the eye heard? What has the ear seen?
Can the hand taste? Can the tongue conceive?
Will the heart report
how every muscle's accustomed to contort
straining chain and leather, shattering bone,
there in the dark when one is left alone
and full of unchaste fire, full of longing---
Is it greed to want you all to myself?
Is it pride to delight in your achievements?
Is it envy to want you, and keep wanting you,
even when you speak
proudly and happily of your attachment
to another? Am I moth
drawing by instinct so close to a light
already the tips of my wings ignite
or am I the damned pilot
willfully catching the long arm of a storm
to reach the eye?