The Sainted Sinner

A piece I wrote a few years back.

Restrained
By the pain
Falling on the sane
Living in the grips
And the blur of the blame.
In the refrain
Gained
With no cause explained,
The sainted sinner
Found the rules to the game!

The prices he paid
For the strength to move on
Mattered more now
That the strength was all gone.
Facing the truth of perception
And the failure of reason
He held to his principles
But could not believe them.
So he turned to the world
With his heart and mind open
It used and abused him
And left him there broken.

The consequences of actions
Long since expired,
Crept in from the past
With the winds of desire.
And as he watched in silence
All the horrors of before,
The saint wanted judgment
The sinner wanted more.
And there in the twilight
The confusion set in
Lost and abandoned
And divided within.

Restrained
By the pain
Falling on the sane
Living in the grips
And the blur of the blame.
In the refrain
Gained
With no cause explained,
The sainted sinner
Found the rules to the game!

The sacrifices made
For the dreams he had hailed
Mattered more now
That all those dreams failed.
The rules were too simple
And forever unspoken,
The house always wins
And the weak will is broken.
And there in the metaphor
Left for others to find
The sainted sinner
Lost his own tortured mind!

Now the pain
Is restrained
In the shadows of the insane
Dying in the winds
Of misinterpreted blame.
And in the refrain
Strained
Where no hope remains
The sainted sinner
Found nothing had changed!

(8/9/03)

Reviews

[Blackbirdsong]

This feels very much like a spoken word piece and there is actually a program that many use where they can record their poems and then paste the code in with their poems so that they can in a sense "do a poetry reading" on here. Check out the latest poems by E.M. Murren to see how it works if you like.

The way you use rhyme in this piece feels like a hammer being slammed down as a punctuation or pulse. It works really well given the subject matter. Well done.

[Alex]

That was really good!