Self Accused for Bro Orlando

narrative verse

 

Self accused

 

Within the heart of darkness. I

 constrained by bonds I cannot see.

My only purpose is to try

 to break my bonds and struggle free.

 

I feel that I am innocent

 and that this sentence is unjust

And yet I am still confident.

I will escape because I must.

 

I won’t surrender to despair.

 For that way lies insanity

I cannot win if I don’t dare

 to seek an opportunity.

 

To solve the problems facing me

 and prove that I am competent.

I have to try persistently

Escape from my predicament.

 

Quite suddenly I find I’m free

Awake but bathed in a cold sweat.

 In my own bed where I should be.

A nightmare which I won’t forget.

 

What do such dark dreams signify?

Are they perhaps a punishment

 I self impose unknowingly.

 For sins which I did not repent.

 

That I have sinned I can’t deny .

No man is wholly innocent.

I lie awake and wonder why.

I have to suffer such torment.

 

For things I did so long ago

 I have no conscious memory.

My conscience still recalls them though

 and uses dreams to punish me.

 

03/08/2009

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Reviews

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Well done, my friend!