Ode To Emily
I
You intoxicate with sips
Of your lone drawn liquor -
But who understood the lips
Of the New English Brewer?
II
Calling herself Immortality -
She took me by the hand
And placed - within - a pen:
Beckoned me to write for Her -
I saw her smile - recognised -
This face that you have faced -
Yet could not drop the pen.
An infant’s grasp is all compulsion.
III
Let the Species perish -
Let it end - where it began -
With you.
Let you be the single breed -
Be rapturous - with mutant status -
Fossilised -
Yet - your odd muse edges on -
DARING was your precipice -
SURPRISE was your key.
As one possessed, I cannot shake
What chills me so -
IV
As possible ally
With my borrowed gait
The Fraudian charge
Of Imitate -
As to censure
A Steal - of Spark -
To kindle my own
Taper Truth -
As possible apply
Sordid label for
Having - possessed -
Of Predecessor -
As to censure
Heritage of Wing
To see - ownself -
The Scape from height -
As possible this regret
As to regret
Eden’s guests - or
Prometheus -
As possible today condemn -
For whethering - as
Yesterday -
FOOTNOTE: ‘Ode To Emily’ is composed of different poem fragments written about ED, in the style of ED, during 1988 (angsty teeenage years while in High School).
Ode To Emily by
Ivan Sun is licensed under a
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