Raped

Used and used again!

Raped

The devil's w***e came to claim my soul.

With an angel's charm she mesmerised me

and stole my seed

to fill her rabid and insatiable hunger.

She separated me from hope

as she sucked the very goodness from my heart

and left me but a wretched, withered man.

And there I suffered, nailed to a cross of glass

where my trust became a mere figment

of infantile imagination;

the meandering, regressed thoughts

of a child who once held dreams.

A once vicarious vision now explained

by psychotic, Catholic hope,

now long abandoned and cast

into the agnostic abyss.

And in Lazerian design

I was resurrected,

reborn only to be reclaimed

as treasure trove,

flotsam bounty upon a sea

once full of unbridled passion.

Re-launched into a hurricane of hate,

where only the black widow,

femme fatale, can survive,

I sank again beneath the waves of doom,

where starved of love's oxygen,

I died.

 

28/03/15

Reviews

[Woody]

amazing descriptions and terrific choice of words! love this one John.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Woody. This is a very personal write.

[Woody]

my pleasure.

[wordman]

like walking through a garden of metaphoric images
the theme was great

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Wordman.

[wordman]

my pleasure john

[Leslie Philibert]

I`m pleased to read work from John again. This impresses with hard imagery, the classic concept of rape turned round, the use of finely considered religious imagery like reborn, resurrected, I enjoyed looking at this.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I am so humbled that are real artisan of poetry might enjoy reading my illiterate attempts. Thank you for such kindness Leslie.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

those catholic parables make for good metaphors in poetry...we all get nailed to our crosses at one time or another...we all resurrect our lives in a fashion, but often the passion doesn't survive with them----and the dreams are gone for good.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I know you share my path Jacob, Thank you for such a considered review.

[ANTO]

Powerful poetry John and exquisite penmanship.
"And there I suffered, nailed to a cross of glass" - what an image !
The femme fatale - trophy hunter and all round black widow. Superb

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Cheers Anto you are a gent!