Consumed By Desire
Experience is a fire that burns within,
Emotion a storm that rages without,
And imagination a knife that cuts deep.
Together they twist and turn and moan,
Lascivious and obscene and raw,
In a violent dance of lustful desire.
The body aches to feel the heat of desire,
As passion ignites the flames within,
And abraded lust takes over, primal and acute,
As the senses are overwhelmed without,
The moans and screams and cries and groans,
Echoing in the mind, a memory deep.
But it is not just the flesh that runs deep,
Because the mind too is consumed by desire,
As the imagination roams and moans,
A wild fire that burns from within,
And spills out into the world without,
A torrent of thought that is unrestricted.
The heart beats fast, the blood runs unconceald,
As the mind and body sink deep,
Into the abyss of feeling without,
Lost in the throes of unbridled desire,
The flames of passion burning within,
As the moans and sighs and groans.
And yet, in this moment, there are no groans,
Just the pure, unadulterated vehement,
As the soul is laid bare deep within,
And the body trembles with desire,
As the heart beats out its primal moan,
And the mind is lost in ecstasy without.
And so, experience, emotion, and imagination,
Give birth to a beast that is raw and wild,
As desire sobs and wails and runs deep within,
Burning without and within, uncontrolled and free.
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Written on May 20, 2023
Submitted by JoeStrickland on May 20, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,377 |
Words | 284 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 4 |
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