Vile creature,
Temptation,
I can feel you surfing on my sensations,
Just off the coast of my desires,
Oblivious to my Messiah,
A thousand desires screaming for attention,
The shrill shrieks of legion starved,
My heart throwing tantrums!
Submission,
Dinner for my demons,
Temptation,
Anti-thesis to my spiritual resolve.
By Chaka Sichangi. You can see more writing by him here
Temptation..... such a vile creature!!!!.....
ReplyDeleteThe persona is so helpless...I am so tempted to dig in and discover what temptation strangles him/her like that...
"The shrill shrieks of legion starved"...kind of makes me picture those horror movies I have watched where bats shriek in darkness as they fly from one corner of the cave to another...
I think temptation here does stand as a strong villain ... It is a situation we all have faced one time or another
Nice poem. I loved it.
ReplyDeleteTemptation here is a creature...nice. I like the way you say it surfs off the coast of desires. Reminds me of a surfer riding a wave drawing ever closer to the shore...that's very inteligent of you.
ReplyDeleteAnd i like the humaness of the persona, if such a word exists. He/she is human in that we all try to resist temptation and it is a struggle as serious and labourous as described but as chaka says, demons must feed.