poetry
This poem was intended to get across the feelings that the bride and groom experience at a wedding; the excitement, the anxiety, the feelings of uncertainty, the love for one another. At the same time, looking back at it now, there is a very clear level of dark feelings, maybe fear or regret, it's hard to say; I know that I wanted to get across that not all good feelings are necessary expressed as such.
The wedding (1994)
Arrogant lust storms its cousins
And death becomes us all.
Rich in hue and full
in colour; great splendours
to behold and
betroth
within a distant chapel.
Scenes of dismay at a
bride; her groom no man
shall kill another unless
to kill himself.
Myself in the looking glass
no light in the
cruel sea
distaste of others marks my
hand tonight which
feels no wet no water no
cruel sea I plunge;
dark sublime my body at
one
with the truth it glides
like a dream across my
chest
no pain I feel but pain
is here my mouth drinks
and savours life.