But For The Dripping
In his life,
Joyous events
Have been like small drops of water
Dripping into a bound persons mouth
Barley keeping them alive.
Whom,
While being further tortured
By common experiences and lackluster events,
Wishing only to die,
Cannot
For the dripping...
220August
Thu 25th Jan 2018 21:06
Thanks for the comments.
It was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the start of Eloisa to Abelard” by Alexander Pope - "In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;..."
The line "ever-musing melancholy" being the more influential of all.
August