poemranker ::Aztec Priest by Jill Stockinger

DetailsThe poem, its numbers, and the conversation.

Lyric № 160390

Aztec Priest

Member since 2001 · Posted 27 Dec 2020 · 1 comment

My love is dark and beautiful My love is haunting strange My love is an Aztec priest With offerings of pain. He holds my heart within his fist My chest bleeding from the thrust Of his sharp black obsidian knife In fulfillment of his blood lust. Somehow I still walk and talk And engage in life quotidian But often view his disdainful face With guilty fascination. Someday I’ll reclaim what’s mine Though he lifts it so triumphantly My heart beating in his sweaty grip As he walks so blindly past me. This blindness I do plan to make Permanent, in revenge to fit His crime, for I now have a wicked knife And I’m learning how to use it. My heart now back where it belongs His rage has no power to move me I have placed his eyes in a marble bust And I smile upon them daily.

Rate it

0 is the worst, 10 the best. Pick a number, add a comment if you like, then send it. Keys: 0–9 pick, Enter sends.

mean 6.00 weighted 5.05 rank 6923 views 2 View voting details →

1 vote so far. Yours would make 2.1 vote so far

1 comment

[6] Dovina 29-Dec-20/2:00 PM Reply
Your love is something I do not want. Take him. Do what you want. But this sounds codependent and mutually destructive. Nevertheless, you've said it well.