Exile Because Of Love Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

in exile because of
love
I found restriction sweet
after some time
as Ovid long ago
by barren rocky shores
as the sea woke
from its own slumber and
on the coasts it warred
and spume and waves went up
the highest rocks
that define limits of
the land and sea:
so I
in these
wild reveries along
the sub-conscious current
flow
in thought and in rare
intermittent moments absolute
in Joy:
and breathe expanding the lungs
of the Inner Soul:
from misery is born Joy
and the days' drear
as mists in the spring sun dissolve.
for
in exile because of
love
I found restriction sweet
after some time
as Ovid long ago
by barren rocky shores
as the sea woke
from its own slumber and
on the coasts it savage warred