For all my life
I’ve obeyed the rules
– their rules
Never following my heart
nor my abdomen
neither believing what my gut told me
nor my own thoughts
I obeyed every commandment
each edict
the letters and spirits of law
and any code of conduct
Yet here I am
The devil’s instruments
leading me on
to bare my soul
unveil my deepest desires
and tremble
naked
with delight
If, like me, you didn’t know what hecatocheires were, you can look it up here.
Napowrimo.net provided us with a lovely challenge for day 6 of #NaPoWriMo: “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem from the point of view of one person/animal/thing from Hieronymous Bosch’s famous (and famously bizarre) triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.”
According to a book in my house, the father of Hieronymous Bosch was a painter. He didn’t want to take on his son as an apprentice. Alledgedly he thought this son had too much fantasy to become a painter….