[Juvenilia] <br /> <br />I had an eye for sea and sky <br />and love for bitter-sweet fruit: <br />I yearned to haunt the gull-dipped sea <br />In quest of my blue recluse. <br />My way was lost amid strange songs, <br />deciduous faith had shed; <br />no stellar sirens sang to me— <br />Your hollow hum kept me in thrall, <br />duped by bliss, pulse possessed. <br />Hostage to my giddy blood, <br />I canceled star-burst dreams, <br />questing for her sparking flesh, <br />bound to pyrotechnic bouts of love <br />the Zodiac knows nothing of.<br /><br />William F Dougherty<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/first-footprint/
