<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530973" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Broad Darkness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">tonight, a torch song is burning, <br>on the levee in Gramercy, <br>a bonfire, a distant always, <br>as hot as nineteen eighty-three. <br>after church we walked in silence, <br>beneath the tangled oaks, I knew, <br>and fancied Satan was upset, <br>when i sold my soul to you... <br>for a moon you never owned, <br>for a night of stars and bliss, <br>baptized in broad darkness, <br>by a Creole kind of kiss<br>divine and human, all at once <br>it went beyond blood brothers, <br>before we knew the sin and shame <br>imposed by peers and holy mothers. <br>southern closets grew damp and cold <br>with fear and condemnation dealt <br>for boys who did not fit the mold <br>were beaten with the bible belt. <br>tradition ruled, all else was odd, <br>redeemed, I sought to please their god, <br>through prayers for grace, my soul confessed... <br>plum NAKED was your Sunday best! <br>PLUM NAKED was your Sunday BEST! <br>PLUM NAKED WAS YOUR SUNDAY BEST!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=ToddMichael+St.+Pierre">ToddMichael St. Pierre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530973" data-title="In Broad Darkness de ToddMichael St. Pierre" data-description="tonight, a torch song is burning, on the levee in Gramercy, a bonfire, a distant always, as hot as nineteen eighty-three. after church we walked in silence, beneath the tangled oaks, I knew, and fancied Satan was upset, when i sold my soul ..."></div> </div> </div>

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