Cast Down from Your Heaven

POSTED IN contemporary poetry July 30, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cast Down from Your Heaven

 

I have been cast down

from your heaven

my tongue cut out

No more words do you wish

from this fiery throat

that spilled such warm sugar

into your pinkish ear

Oh, you never kept your promise

to cure my lovesick heart

instead you called on the gods

who have sworn to silence

my words for you

Like Orpheus

my head floats

and begs a kiss

But your lips are for curses

and incrimination alone

I asked only words

and to swim in the same waters

that you swim

to call our friendship

everlasting

But I fell nine days

into liquid fire

as you ravaged

my every thought of you

I’m still burning here

while you sleep

sanguine in the knowledge

that you have

silenced a voice

that spoke your name with fondness.

 

 

 

Frank Crsicenti