frankaidenryan ([info]frankaidenryan) wrote,
@ 2006-05-22 21:44:00
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Horror Poerty, volume 6
Heh, I'm on a roll today! I *LOVE* this poem. I hope you guys do, too.


The Obsession


I've loved you more than life itself
and now, the life I had is lost.
The body you knew is no more,
rotting away beneath the frost.

I missed you terribly, and thus
My spirit never left this place
At moonlit nights I watch you sleep
Beneath your sheets with satin lace.

With all the memories we shared
I cannot bring myself to part.
As long as you breathe, I remain
If out of sight - means out of heart.

And my heart broke the day I saw
You and that other one, that crone.
I somehow assumed you would grieve
your days away, and die alone.

I can no longer stand to watch
Her run those fingers through your hairs
She won't be smiling so cute when
I'll make that whore fall down the stairs.

And do not think I didn't cause
The shivers of unease at night
As my cold breath blows on your skin
And sets your neckhairs all upright.

My very purpose has become
To cause you pain and misery!
And those loud knocking sounds you hear
When clocks strike twelve? That's also me.

And then one morning, you'll wake up
and find that you can take no more
Of nightly noises, rattling chains
Of silent whispers, slamming doors.

If I can't have you for myself
I'd rather not have you at all.
If only I could LEAVE this place -
I would attend your funeral.


Frank Aiden Ryan



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[info]jchance
2006-05-22 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Well, I imagine the Poe comparison has been done to death with your stuff, but it also reminds me of Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" somehow.

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[info]frankaidenryan
2006-05-24 07:17 pm UTC (link)
I've read that one. Now that you mention it, I can imagine why you would think so. The meter's about the same, rhyme is about the same, and my poem does echo victorian times.

I'm in good company with Browning and Poe =) I think, like them ,I have a tendency to tell a story in a poem instead of trying to express a feeling. But I can't begin to touch Poe's grandness, English isn't even my first language. It'd take me for ever to make poems as ...shall we say, convoluted as his.

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