Siren’s Song
Poetry is a dangerous siren’s song,
That calls the soul towards a chasm
deep,
Dulling the mind and making the heart
long,
For that which it may touch yet never
keep.
A Sonnet is too much the friend of
truth,
And leaves no room for self-deluding
lies,
It conjures up the honesty of youth,
And artifice through artifice soon
dies.
Essential truths will spill onto the
page,
Transpiring through the pores of
consciousness,
Leaving exposed the battles that we
wage,
To build facades of hope for
hopelessness.
I can deny the painful song I hear,
But it’s too late; its message is too
clear.
From Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems (C) 2011 Victor D. Lopez
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