Francesco

Rotten

It is rotten, what I did to you.

 

Ever so lonely, never forgotten.

Sifting and turning,

taunting and burning,

sickening, churning

ravaging through.

 

Nothing I say will ever be true:

anything given,

anything gotten

begotten an anguish

too great to consume.

 

And yet I resume

from where I once came:

the bigoted showers of ocular rain.

Because it is rotten,

painted with nothing,

never forgotten

what I did to you.

 

Comforting sounds are never in sight,

during this fight alone through and through.

Never a light,

anything bright,

insomniac nights

self-loving taboo.

 

But you’ll linger on as a fading tattoo:

hope is just useless self-flagellation

reality blows in my imagination

like summery storms

and the summer was you.

 

Because it was rotten all the way through:

ever so lonely, never forgotten,

sizzling, burning,

spinning and turning,

dicing and churning,

never in tune…

...Gruesomely rotten what I did to you.