POETRY: Dark Temptation by Reggie Drake

I thought of you as NOTHING but subhuman,
When you trampled upon the residual remains of my shattered heart.
Ignoring the engagements of intrigue that i presented,
The joyful beckons that I used to entice you into venturing beyond those moral breaches,
The woyful summoning that ensued when you refused
Turned me inwardly reclusive...
I dreamed of your Dark Temptation.
In the foolish childhood of juvenile despair
I rocked in a cradle of a thousand seas that personify these dark emotions,
Washing away the burning fire revitalizing my soul,
And settling in the black solitude of that lonesome island.
An X,
Placed perfectly in the center of my despondency housed the cemetery of my desires,
Tombstones labeling each broken dream,
Each promise unfulfilled,
My Dark Temptation.
The lament of my spirit rocked and swayed like waves crashing against a
Shipwrecked cave,
Every time i felt those subtle insults,
Those delicate hands touching eager flesh
As I inhale the aphrodisiac of my divine dream,
Only to fall into a pit of infinite oblivion when you whispered,
NO.
How can I ever forgive you?
Oh, how I wanted you to be, or be nothing,
But light in the dark,
The sun to my shadow.
I wanted you to take me to Olympus,
Soaring invisible heights and reigning forever with you.
You turned sweet ruminations into Dark temptations,
I watched your silhouette dissipate on the sandy beach where my heart laid,
Maybe it would have been better not to know you,
Than know you and then lose you,
At least in my mind you were divine,
The sweet flower that smelled like infinity,
Your beauty never fleeting inside the timeless capsule of my psyche.
Here, is where I loved you,
Before those memories turned to dust,
When you rejected temptation,
Your eyes of ember red etched encryptions into my flesh that revealed to me a conflicted heart.
One that chose to keep spirituality
Rather than engage in the pleasures of the flesh for a season,
To stay as pure as the naked heavens that illuminate the sky,
You looked seduction in the face and smiled a haughty smile that said,
"I am above what you stand for"...
The why do you come back,
To those chamber doors that conceal persuasion,
Succumbing to the enticement of the enticer.
Do you really mean no??
Don't resist.
I will alleviate my sorrow with you.
I will destroy the sanctity that you hold dear and fulfill my sacred dream.
I will not stop until I hold you in my grips forever,
Open those chamber doors and preserve my undying memory,
Leave your morality at the door,
And fulfill,
Your Dark Temptation.