Because the chalice of your mouth, your vibrant voice, The slumbrous beauty of your eyes Are damning me, unknowingly, to hell I've asked that I might be for just an hour, omnipotence. I've asked that I might take from you The gifts you deem essential And somehow make my love libation for your sacrifice. I'll bury every vestige of all sensual, carnal things In the pristine sepulcher of your forgetfulness. My gift to you, no fair exchange, will be capacity for deep, true love And boundless faith and chastity. If this, my intercession, be fulfilled You'll never sense one slight delusion In this mad, unfettered symphony Of life and love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUR PRAYER OF THANKS by CARL SANDBURG RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCE by GEORGE BARKER PRE-EXISTENCE by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE HIS SAVIOURS WORDS, GOING TO THE CROSSE by ROBERT HERRICK THE NUANCES OF MENDACITY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THESEUS AND ARIADNE by FRANCIS BEAUMONT TRINITIE SUNDAY by JOSEPH BEAUMONT NEW YEAR'S VERSES FOR THE CARRIER OF THE MIRROR, 1826 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |