Cancer of the Laboring Heart
Deep within the chambers of my frantic tachycardic nucleus
Lies a shrouded growth, dividing and multiplying
A renegade clump of cells, a copious cancer of the hurting heart
Carrying forth a patchwork architecture of your yesteryear
Where all memories stream to their source, to you my love
When your mystical visage softly settled on mine
As our lips converged, to embrace the zeniths of an apical love
As our dewy lips, transfigured to craters of passion, oozing with molten lava
As my body incinerated to the resonating fervor of your apical bonfires, your luminescent hearth
Alas now, my lonely heart decays in dismal waves of subjugation
As the warrior in me stutters, etched by the blades of your pirouetting memories
As a knight disheveled of armor, of glory, is setting foot on a lopsided battlefield
As a million traitors were sipping the wine of the body
Seated on thrones of crumbling ventricles and choking atria
Engulfed in to boundless cycles of multiplying bliss
As doorways were absented by the guards of cellular sanity
As now, I stare at a vague flickering light at the end of the tunnel
Embarking on a journey of recuperation, of precious love regained
A Miltonian sequel to evaporate my waves of melancholy in my sea of solitude
For a lass with a heart of a feather, to levitate me back to the precious arms of life
For I seek a profound salvation from my living dead
To arrest the inflammation of my perforated past
To ebb the tides of cancer in me, for my resurrection from your Golgotha
To recapture serendipity, for a legendary tale of paradise regained
poem by Dilantha Gunawardana
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