Drunken Sestina

Drunken Sestina

Death rejected me

One more disappointment

Drowning sorrowful wine

Sinking by the seafull

Slinks away by morning

Another dreaded day

Cursing break of day

Its sky oppresses me

Heavy hours of morning

Dripping disappointment

A neverending seafull

Caustic as poisoned wine

No longer staunched by wine

Relentless pain of day

Pouring by the seafull

Inundating me

In blinding disappointment

And still it's only morning

Yes, yet another morning

When last evening's wine

Left only disappointment

To pave the way of day

What can I make of me?

Puking by the seafull

Dreams, a begger's seafull

Drowned to naught by morning

Here I've only me

Sifting dregs of wine

To hide from light of day

In caves of disappointment

It's always disappointment

Crashing down, a seafull

No other kind of day

No way to hide from morning

No quantity of wine

Can take this fate from me

Disappointment every day

Drowns me in a seafull

Of bitter morning wine

April 26, 2010