Clemency - Rome

Are you here to see what only angels have seen?

So far from me

You believe yourself so far from me

Apart from me

Am I now released

To penetrate the secret of this old disease?

Did you all retreat just to mock and cheat

That passing gleam revealed in a dream?

A vision seen in an opium sleep

Now come and kneel for clemency

Our love is flawed, yet our legs entwine

The hidden urn with the poison wine

The hidden urge for things remote

The travel can no more console

And how are we to welcome

The new years, these new years?

And how are we to ever know

Clemency?

Now suck it in, now breathe it out

Now suck it in, now spit it out:

Clemency!

Look beyond now…