Sunday, September 27, 2009

Sonnet #7

If violets for the love of violets bred
And robins for the love of self made homes,
Would not corrosion with itself be wed
And would the sky not clabber into bone?
If sand-crabs raised their necks for martyrdom--
Their vast ideals bloodying the sea--
Creation would not mourn; would lack the hum
Of noble fists that thump out piety.
In future days, in future evolutions
We will see the sand-crab seeped in sin:
He'll bray, and bow in mindless adoration
To gods poking white wings out through his skin.
And boldly, in the new philosophy,
He'll mull, and curse his own humanity.