Blaring Lamentations

Asunder from the assuaging calls—
The chortles in the brawls,
The throttles in the vacant holes,
The spasm in the sinewy sinusoid
That clambers with the trails
Of an astray galloping asteroid;
The sirens will denounce the tinnitus
To coil in the wavering fathoms,
The banshees will squander a soul
To define haughty distraught
The montage migraine wrought,
Follow me, into the light
And cast a shadow into the blight
With certitude riveted inside
Digress to grow seraphic strides
And blind the blaring laments
With omniscient chivalry whilst tottering
In the veneer of debacle and saturnalia
And you will cleave with rue to ensue
The garish pouncing of threads
In trelisses and porches of
Ghastly towns and in the crevasses
Come naked in the facade
Of devouring fleet from defeat

This is how we live, or submit into
Believing the shallow fringes of life
Eaten by fear, eating fear, basking and
Vying to subsist within the parameter
Only inches farther the saturnine pits
And this is how we are defined
The coarse grating of eloquent lines
Mouths guzzled in a suture fatal as
The debauched hearing for misery.

poem by Norman Santos
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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