the betrayal of memory <br />is a poisoned chamber; <br />a melancholic rack <br />of shrieking virgins, <br />roaming forever <br />in lewd fields <br />perfumed tresses <br />with hollowed caresses <br />oblivion's horror <br />and cadaverous ceilings; <br />crumbling relics <br />of ardor's stale pleasures. <br /> <br />cruelty blooms <br />among wilted cathedrals, <br />as depravity suckles <br />on blighted fruit: <br />the serpent craves only <br />the breath of the pure, <br />and in his vermilion <br />the cancer takes root. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Dec.29 2009<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-betrayal-of-memory/
