In Love's Light Poem by C Note

In Love’s light, I find myself.

Unobscured,

And with a splintering conscience.

A veiled passion no longer disguised

Finds me depraved and insolent

Standing alone foremost and within

A room where the walls are both boundless and absolute.

I turn away to avoid Love’s reproach.

I am Revealed and displayed for truth’s sake

Instinctively scowling with downcast eyes.

Searching not for the blissful dole of Love’s impatient gaze -

I recoil and voraciously ensconce the rapture I have come to embrace;

Clinging to the agony it has wrought.

Any pursuit of celestial adoration has long subsided

And since been substituted with earthly inclination.

I’ve made an acquaintance of simple satisfaction -

And it has been enough for me.

Still no affinity is forged without compromise:

My intracacies have not afforded me any exception.

The blinding illumination beyond my closed eyelids has dimmed to a subtle glow.

I am left alone again, to my own device.