{"sf1_id":876169,"sf2_id":"rm8olyJe","title":"Soul Force","author":"SylveaKun","words":171,"posted_at":"2015-06-21T16:14:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","Soul Force","SylveaKun"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/876169-soul-force","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rm8olyJe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/42/37/42374bd6-8f0c-461b-9830-0ac05015b67d","description":"#4 of Abstract\n\nMy style of poetry is very dark, but also like a combination of Poe/Gluck/Nabokov. This poem was inspired by the emotional events I had this year.","content":"I\u0026nbsp;quiver\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;banquet\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;goddesses,\n\nYet I deny the pleasure of Eden.\n\nThe fruits waltzing around me,\n\nThe apple advocating the dream\n\nWas nothing more than a dream,\n\nForfeited fantasies drown inside of me,\n\nFluttering the very veins of my soul,\n\nExtracting its motives,\n\nFor I had nothing to give\n\nTowards the banquet of Eden.\n\nNourishment towards my soul\n\nProvides nothing but a lie,\n\nA lie that spirals through roses,\n\nA corpse lavenders left lathered\n\nBy the scent of pleasure,\n\nBy the coveted corruptions,\n\nBy the lustful lost\n\nOf the adamant arrow's scar\n\nAgainst the corpse.\n\nYes, the corpse\n\nThat possessed a soul,\n\nA soul wrathfully waltzing\n\nThrough the banquet,\n\nLeaving nothing but sorrow,\n\nDreading nothing but wonder.\n\nFrightful fruits fathomed\n\nThe eye's exposure\n\nOf such a force,\n\nSuch a widowed wrath\n\nOf its adamant avarice,\n\nOf its tainted truth,\n\nFor all that lies beneath\n\nThe face of the waves\n\nIs a soul,\n\nA stitched soul bounded\n\nBy the filaments of fate,\n\nBy the veins of vanity,\n\nThrough the hollowness\n\nOf the once fruitful banquet.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Abstract","previous":"https://sofurry.com/s/V1YYXP21"}}