The Self-Portrait of Heaven

by IdTakeABulletForYou   Mar 3, 2008


I can see a ghost in the shadow of God.
If were such perfection to be in existence and worshipped, you would be its sole deity.
The ever-bore mark of the tantalization strikes me well and hard.
You can be assured I shall never forget thee.

Whilst life and hardship besets my life, I think of such fruition.
Only one wish is thrown to the heavens and what follows is just a nighttime fantasy.
Wouldn't it be this day a perfect last, and you a perfect beginning?
Fondling your soft embrace... what is there but nothing?

Seeing and being worthily traumatized is all I ask of the heavens.
A truce with my inequity will bear me the foolish assumption that when I wake up, it will be next to you.
I should see to it that when I am in debt
I expect nothing more than tantalization and nothing less than memories.

I am foolish to want thee, of course.
Still, I manage to run into battle without a shield or a sword.
Am I to be harmed due to my over-zealotry and debt?
So be it that I die in such lust.
So be it that I live on;
So be it without you.

Will this temptation acquire the fruits of movement?

I shan't take advantage of the mere portrait Heaven has provided me of itself.
I know that with a brush in hand,
I could do no better.

[Paradise is a fruitless being;
Thou art paradise.]

...You are the self-portrait of heaven.

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  • 8 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    Hello Stephen

    This really is an engrossing piece of free verse which I am not always a fan of, even though I try my hand at it sometimes. Too often, the line between prose and poetry gets blurred with it in my opinion, but there is a very real difference between free verse and prose when done properly.
    I always think of a poem needing to display figurative language, be it metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, etc or poetic tools like alliteration, meter, rhyme etc. Some free verse doesn't seem to incorporate any of these and that confuses me sometimes.

    Anyway, this is excellent stuff, full of the things I mentioned above and is a fine write indeed!

    Well written. All the very best,
    Ben

    • 8 years ago

      by IdTakeABulletForYou

      Thank you for your kind words on this older poem of mine. I still enjoy this one, and I miss the days when falling in love was as easy as writing a poem about someone.

      Again, thank you!
      -IdTakeABulletForYou

  • 16 years ago

    by Meme

    Such a deep poem
    wow
    keep it up
    5/5