Excruciate
Haul down my body from the heights of this cross
my mind made up from this maelstrom of misery.
What angel now will coddle me in his wings
and carry me, the apple of his eye, to sanctuary?
A fingernail drawn from the flesh,
we part, my love and I.
I do not have the heart to tell her what I feel,
that all of this is quite unreal,
the web of a morbid dream, spider-spun.
Where now are our childhood promises,
the bread and wine that made us whole,
the words and deeds that we believed
would lead us to the promised land?
I know where I have been and what I have seen,
but it’s as if it all happened to someone else
and took place in that stranger’s dream:
a surrealist scream of an open eye
slashed by a razor blade.
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The eye – so sensitive. I can’t watch that scene either. I could barely stomach Mr Cake’s post on it. And there is line in scripture which I am at a loss to find but it says of God that the one persecuting His followers is like one touching his eyeball.
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I had to leave when Clare was having her cataracts seen to. I couldn’t look and I wasn’t able to talk about it even. Oh dear.
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Yeah! I would’ve had to as well!
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Ahhh Bunuel and Dali make an appearance… always welcome though quite sinister
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I have never been able to watch that seen. It still gives me nightmares. Sinister is the word … unless there’s a stronger one. It’s such a powerful image, though, even in words.
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I do like a bit of sinister now and then… I like that scene. Frightening but powerful
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Powerful and quite vivid, Roger.
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Thanks, Em. I am working on this sequence. More to come.
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I know where I have been and what I have seen,
but it’s as if it all happened to someone else
and took place in that stranger’s dream:
a surrealist scream of an open eye
slashed by a razor blade.
Excellent writing and painful to read.
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Painful to write, too. This will be quite the sequence when I have it finished. Hard sometimes to click “like” on some of these. Thanks for being here.
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It is, Roger…
I always appreciate the likes, even on difficult things, as it shows me they have been read…
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You make a good point, Tanya. I usually click, even when I see the razor blade and the eyeball.
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Right, I view those “likes” in that context with difficult pieces.
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