At A Man's Possession; Composed The Weekend Of Thanksgiving, 2020 [Redux]

. . . there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

---Matthew 13:50


And he answered, saying, My name is Legion:

for we are many.

---Mark 5:9


"I do not think that they will sing to me."

---T. S. Eliot, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock


Their chatter is untoward and cacaphonic,

haunting, fearful, and utterly demonic;

but all are pieces of his shattered mind,

players performing masques that are designed

to drive him into paths much misdirected:

like glass shards in which Algol's light, reflected,

lures him, like moths to flame, into the dim 

recesses of the soul's wreckage in him.


Starward

[*/+/^]

Author's Notes/Comments: 

On Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, 1994, I wrote the very first sonnet of my life, about the reaction of the Gadarenes to Jesus' remarkable healing of the possessed man.  The sonnet was one of my earliest postings at postpoems.com, some seven years after it was written.  Thinking, during the Holiday, yesterday, of that early event, I decided to revisit the issue; although this poem is about a fictive character, not the Gadarene demoniac.


The link to my very first sonnet is https://www.postpoems.org/authors/jer/poem/549223


I might add that Eliot's poem, the source of my second epigraph, is in the public domain.

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