Wading and skating through muck gunk and brine,
Avoiding and hating that cesspool of slime,
While puzzling over that vortex of grime I happened across a bauble that shines.
Its shape ever mutable,
Its color inscrutable,
Its texture a melange of perfume turned palpable,
The bauble of mine, so entrancing and fine, responds to my touch with a soft-whispered sigh.
That sound so addictive, I entreat it for more,
With caresses and whispers that seek and explore,
And the bauble, it listens, it draws from its core,
And lets loose with a moan that excites every pore.
As the bauble and I learn from each other,
The chaos of gunk seems less able to smother,
I look down at the ichor, and see it's grown farther, as the bauble and I begin to soar
Above and beyond the turmoil and terror,
The bauble inherits an absolute glamour
And its argent creation brings to my eyes a world aggrandized and distended with abstractions half conceptualized.
And the bauble, it grows, feeds on my affection,
An essence of mine I'm quite willing to give,
And as this symbiote needs benefaction,
So too, do I need its light to live.
But now, what's this? Have I heard its last sigh?
Its innards are murky, its light seems to die.
The surface, it's slippery, has it all been a lie?
As I ponder and worry I implore it for more, caress it and kiss it and all such amour,
I rip from myself my flesh and my mind, and into its center my soul I do pour,
And despite all this effort and suff'ring now poor,
Unresponsive, the bauble, now without its glamour.
Curse it! It's useless, it had me enthralled!
Why toy with me so? Why save me at all?
And now with this anger, this passion of disillusion I realize how fragile the bauble had been
So I glare and I stare, almost willing to dare to tighten my grip and crush the betrayer!
And though I'm aware that I'll fall if it shatters I'm perfectly willing to suffer the grime,
To delve back in to the muck gunk and brine,
Brooding and looting that cesspool of slime.
That light! So bright! Where is it from?
The bauble! It flashed, it might not be done!
Right there! That glimmer, the blink of an eye,
And a soft-spoken whisper, that might be a sigh.
So small, those tokens, but I bring them nearer,
And clutch to my heart the bauble with fear,
For I'm afraid it might slip, my heart waxing dreary,
But for that small favor, I'd gladly grow weary.
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- 16 years, 10 months, 25 days ago