Utmost Devotion



Turning saints into disease
The chemicals between
Brief is a candles flame
As if never seen

A burning cherub guides
The offspring of a dream
I knew you like a mother
Does the child she weans

Of her force, of her life
Rise my secular priest
My heart a banquet table
My love the pendulous feast

However omnipresences
Has a cold degree
To infect like the virus
Fast consuming me

Time has laid you waste
But your spirits here
Within my burning blood
Among my pernicious tears

A thousand rosaries
Perpetuates the ghost
The virus permeates
Within its faithful host.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB XXXA XCXC ADXD XXXX AEXE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 536
Words 100
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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