From this bizarre and livid sky
Tormented by your destiny,
Into your vacant spirit fly
What tho~ghts? respond, you libertine.
Voracious in my appetite
For the uncertain and unknown,
I do not whine for paradise
As Ovid did, expelled from Rome.
Skies tom apart like wind-swept sands,
You are the mirrors of my pride;
Your mourning clouds, so black and wide,
Are hearses that my dreams command,
And you reflect in flashing light
The Hell in which my heart delights.
Congenial Horror
Charles Baudelaire
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Poem topics: destiny, heart, light, pride, sky, wind, wide, spirit, unknown, paradise, black, command, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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