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Jun 30, 2008
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Sonnet 17 (Of the drunken poet)
I'm drunk today, my lover, as I will be tomorrow
And when it will be Sunday I'll drink for our love;
I'm bombed tonight, my sugar, as if I had to borrow
Some guns for my illusions with bullets from above.
I'm like no others, neither they will sustain my arrow
In their anemic shadow that lickers in sweet wine,
But if you saw the meaning of what they were - a narrow
Seclusion - you'll be hiding below my graceful line.
It's true... the bowl is crying because of its damnation,
While my ecstatic whistle blows fire in your ear;
Just when the rain stops bleeding, you'll find me in vibration
Towards the face of summer - one day in every year.
I hope you understand that my nothingness is what they
Call the subversive sorrow in manners of their own way.
And when it will be Sunday I'll drink for our love;
I'm bombed tonight, my sugar, as if I had to borrow
Some guns for my illusions with bullets from above.
I'm like no others, neither they will sustain my arrow
In their anemic shadow that lickers in sweet wine,
But if you saw the meaning of what they were - a narrow
Seclusion - you'll be hiding below my graceful line.
It's true... the bowl is crying because of its damnation,
While my ecstatic whistle blows fire in your ear;
Just when the rain stops bleeding, you'll find me in vibration
Towards the face of summer - one day in every year.
I hope you understand that my nothingness is what they
Call the subversive sorrow in manners of their own way.
— Unlight, Jun 30, 2008
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orgami
17 years 11 months ago
And so too I
Unlight
17 years 11 months ago
yes, orgami, there’s
Candlewitch
17 years 11 months ago
Wow!
Unlight
17 years 11 months ago
Cat,
Atticus
17 years 8 months ago
extraorinary
goatman
17 years 5 months ago
this is rare
Unlight
17 years 5 months ago
Goatman, thank you for your