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Misinterpreted Scriptures
by Dan KastenI sleep again tonight with only bible and bottle
the more I drink the better memories I have of you
the more I read the better understanding I have of why you left
I search for a comforting passage but every verse leads me
to recall your conviction to take everything we had
and sacrifice it to the same God I drink to now for compassion
the more I drink the more I remember the days filled with laughter
how we breathed the same air and discovered the meaning of every dream
I miss the dreaming, the never ending dreaming
the more I drink the better I am for compartmentalizing
you as a lost soul coveting what you never had before
unaware of what we had at the time
the more I drink the better you are relegated to old English verse
accompanied by sworded words and deceptive wisdom
daring to be deciphered without concordance or providence
the more I drink the more I misinterpret the scriptures
for now, I close the book and acquiesce that the more I read
the more I should drink, the more I should drink. 03/14/2004 Author's Note: Detroit. Starbucks on Griswold and Congress.
Posted on 08/18/2007
Copyright © 2025 Dan Kasten
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 08/18/07 at 05:44 PM I can definitely see the convoluted logic of your actions. Hehe. |
| Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 08/18/07 at 10:38 PM I think most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that have always bothered me are those I do understand. Sometimes they are all made better with a bit of "illumination". Thanks. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 08/26/07 at 12:20 PM I needed to come in here several times, Dan ... to read the poem alone without paying attention to comments. (Sometimes I find myself distracted by other "takes" on a poem -and lose perspective. So I wait. An aside to this is - isn't it interesting that when a poem is presented, some forget that it is a poem? Well, ...more on that some other day.) For today, I will commend you on your skill of presenting perspectives in place. And will add that I topple over at the irony of using "misinterpreted" in the poem all the way to —> BiNgO! and enclose a nod of grace to an author who pulls things off without flinching. ;) |
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