The indictment





 In all Seasons
 I would be able to charge you
 with having stolen half my life
 in my thinking of you.

 The half of my life
 which unfolded on this Earth
 despite knowing what a disaster would occur
 in the thoughts of the living
 when by means of the terrible monotony of processions
 the depressing result would be announced
 of the battle with the patrons
 of temporary Existence.

 That is also why you were in a hurry
 to steal half of the Earth from me
 as long as I was thinking about sleeping with you.

 The half of my sleep
 which unfolded in the Sky
 not worried that it would be challenged by a God
 from the time when you...
 you were dreamlike only on Earth
 laying the foundations thus for the Idea
                                           of Eternal Hypnosis
 despite the fact we know that Dreams were scandalized
 when they were calculated with the dimensions of the Heavens
 that was Idea you were wearing
 in order to confront
                             the fierce human winter
 impossible to violate.

 Because you remained untouched by any desires
 all agreements have been broken.

 And you accepted walking once more on the Earth
 despite the fact you knew there awaited you
 the indifference of the wasteland...
 But you wanted to climb up to the Sky
 knowing that you were outside the love of the living
 despite the fact that at the Gate of the heart
 you can feel a large multitude
 of stars awaiting you there.

 Nevertheless I have withdrawn
 to the dry lands of the indictment
 and rule there on my own.

 A strange kingdom this one of mine
 having no one at my beck and call
 and without being a candle for anyoneÕs fate.

 Despite all that setting off now
 for my one and only fortune
 I see thousands of daydreamers quarrelling
 about the matter of the bequest.

 Happiness...by dear visionaries
 is non-existent in the wealth of this property
 but in that way...to my surprise
 being truly open to the blessings or the blasphemies
                                                                                     of Heaven...
 there will be built on it the white Temples of Theology
 for the People who even after all this vain futility
 will try the Luck
 of Existence here on Earth.
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Submitted on March 04, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCB CDEFAXAX GGB XHXBDXXXAFIEJ XK DBXHFXXX XIX XXJ XKFX XGXAKGGXD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,169
Words 371
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 3, 13, 2, 8, 3, 3, 4, 9

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