I do not want to bathe in the light of the night
if it were to be engraved in my soul
Neither do I want to be entombed in a day
that to me is light that doesn’t burn bright!
I don’t look forward to eclipses,
you can call the lives in the waves any colour of exotica you like,
I am solidly entrenched on land; even if the piracy
stretches beyond its watery turf; and chains up my arms
Did I look into crescents? did I feel the sky
stretch beyond me in the distance?
Though I want the stars sequinning my fabric
I am absolutely repulsed at the expanse!
The subterfuge can be mine, as well as that of my enemies
But I am certainly not responsible for the treachery!
How can I subsume greater is patience
when I have lost azure in the departure of Virgo from Sagittarius?
And do I feel any redder, when it seems to me
that destiny must have lost its conscience?
I feel like I have aces without trumps
I don’t even think I want to dabble with the greens
I am not going to say if its right to be right, or wrong to be left
Why should I be subject to undeserved torture’s cleft?
Since my volition is not a solution, but a defeat of purpose,
why should I be game to all your calls?
This dealing of cards is just not my winning game
I just leave it all to the black and white
of my wanting to stop caring for your stories of universality
I was never responsible for the universe’s crimes.
You can’t imagine the pain of loss and suffering
You should know the onus doesn’t fit with me
even though all that began lay with me
and though I have carried all the burdens since
I don’t want to plead; but I should say emphatically
that I may be blindfolded, but you are all blind
And I really think that I want to
leave you all, and your infernal subservience, behind!
You may like the taste of misbegotten luxuries
But I don’t think a freedom fraught with fraud is my serendipity!
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