Aberration

ABERRATION

You left me with a head full of honeydew,

A brain fashioned only for foolery.

I pleaded with fate when I saw you

That once; you dressed my insides in jewels.

Stiffness embraced the retinue

Then, annealed their limbs in misrule.

The dark-hearted galaxy, liquid aurora,

With earth underfoot commenced a duel

And made of me a new Pandora.

Opals adorned bright heaven’s breast,

And I, bewildered, mistook gem for flora—

Not zoic but stone beat in your chest.

What’s sweet is so only in blithe speculation.

I name each star awaiting your conquest

And refuse to realize the aberration

Of unequal ambitions; the illusory,

Inevitable ends of futile infatuations.

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