Lust: A poem 

The stock house of beauty has many feet clamouring 

Youth is bewitched by a carnal wandering 

Who cares about the sacred? We live with the profane 

This valediction to morality happens time and again 

The cindering of catechism to the rose of a ruse 

Character’s fission is only every day’s news 

Sludgy minds sleep in beds of lust 

Invigorated by titillation. Whose God do we trust? 

Adulthood’s winter counts on meaningless harvests 

A rampage, a conquest, is pride at zest 

Our wardrobes seem to have blackened mirrors 

when the fabric of the soul rips in horror 

Predators don’t think they are all the poorer 

when there seems no countdown to vandalising a flower  

A choice of freedom is to be enslaved 

And have conscience’s reason meet its grave 

Published by montecyril

Hi, I am Monte Cyril Rodrigues and live in Melbourne, Australia. I am a retired journalist. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I've had voices and visions all my life. I think it is a spiritual experience, my doctors think otherwise. I am a deeply spiritual person and keep having experiences with otherworldly realms.

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