Poetry: Dichotomy
Dichotomy
I stand alone among the stars and glimpse the night.
Without, within the darkness lies and grows. My soul
Burns bright - a fire inside my veins - there fills a hole
With passion deep and dark. Here, here my mind takes flight.
An enemy inside the mirror stands and waits
Upon the day when barriers of reason break -
When rationale and self-control must I forsake -
And ride capricious waves until the storm abates.
Now vi'lence and desire burn away the mask
I bear so willingly for you from day to day.
Each minute spent with you, rejecting id must pay
A price most dear. And so before me lies a task:
To traverse lands fill'd vividly with searing heat -
To find myself, my mind now whole - mastered - complete.
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You might ask, what brought on this spurt of creative writing? Especially a sonnet. Well, my only hint is that this poem's original title was labeled Pon Farr before my friend laughed so hard I felt I had to change it... Ha.
Yes.
I stand alone among the stars and glimpse the night.
Without, within the darkness lies and grows. My soul
Burns bright - a fire inside my veins - there fills a hole
With passion deep and dark. Here, here my mind takes flight.
An enemy inside the mirror stands and waits
Upon the day when barriers of reason break -
When rationale and self-control must I forsake -
And ride capricious waves until the storm abates.
Now vi'lence and desire burn away the mask
I bear so willingly for you from day to day.
Each minute spent with you, rejecting id must pay
A price most dear. And so before me lies a task:
To traverse lands fill'd vividly with searing heat -
To find myself, my mind now whole - mastered - complete.
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You might ask, what brought on this spurt of creative writing? Especially a sonnet. Well, my only hint is that this poem's original title was labeled Pon Farr before my friend laughed so hard I felt I had to change it... Ha.
Yes.