Day 3

Demi-Glosa : This is a variation of a "Glosa". In the Demi-Glosa the first couplet is taken from another poem, these lines will form the last lines of each stanza. Italics will indicate the line's borrowedness. These lines are borrowed from Psalm 18.

The cords of death entangled me;

the torrents of destruction

overwhelmed me

Watching a rosehip bleed-

it shouldn't grieve me

I'm not a monster

I never was.

But it's hard to grasp the nature

of his loving chokehold;

strength like ivory.

To shut out agony

that shadow place where

the cords of death entangled me;

I've seen the ocean's wrath

I was fifteen when it almost

held me

under it's dark feathered wing

I prayed to poseidon but he didn't

help me

the torrents of destruction

overwhelmed me.