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Devil and the Daylight
by Nicole AssenzaBacchus said hello
and oh I know
if it's you, amaretto
I must be dying--
(in your hard smile, jewel eyes)
in the cold and godless fires
I've so long loved
and thought of as myself
(I eject my faith in funerals, I
hold myself to myself)
come to bury my heartlove,
marrow of my bones-
when the midnight moon called you
amaretto
it's a hard smile, jewel eye
( if there's a lie in every side of me
pulling my threads, it's consignment)
funny thing is,
if we're going to talk about sin
then I--
win, I win, I win
if we're going to talk about sin then
when midnight is a paranoid poison
supping it salacious,
your saturnalia eats my humble children--
and oh I know
Bacchus is just saying hello;
(and nothing makes me cry
but the devil and the daylight) 03/31/2007 Author's Note: Titan's Bacchus Meeting Ariadne/ Goya's Saturn. Eeeeh, this one took a long time to write. Like three months.
Posted on 03/31/2007
Copyright © 2024 Nicole Assenza
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 03/31/07 at 03:52 PM Well, I would say it's worth it. I loved this. |
| Posted by Tony Whitaker on 03/31/07 at 06:12 PM Oh, ameretto, don't you know... I enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoy looking at Goya's Saturn!! |
| Posted by Christina Butcher on 06/18/07 at 03:58 PM very beautiful poem. |
| Posted by Dave Fitzgerald on 06/17/09 at 03:15 PM Congrats on POTD Nicole!!! |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 11/05/14 at 01:43 PM I love the music and the rhythm and the occasional tear flowing through this Bacchanalia to imps and daylight. |
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