Maradona

Annihilate your fears and live safe in the knowledge that you have not sinned

You were the chosen one to carry my poisoned chalice of truth through eternity

Let not the harshness of cinders incarcerate your guileless soul

You were born to set me free from the immediacy of circumstance.

At first you were an unidentified quantified thought

Imprinted in words, seeking deliverance through flesh

My scorching gaze sifted you from images that were at best

Sparkling resonances of what was destined for greatness beyond time.

You chose that fatal step, that limpid moment fraught with uncertainties

At the altar of my mad Abraham moments you were the Isaiah of the now

Sacrificing innocence for the vanity of a man besotted with everlasting glory

By becoming the vessel, you surrendered to being forever mired with misery.

For true art does not allow the luxury of tranquillity

It gnaws the very epicentre of sordid human existence

It unravels your inner self in the most pitiless manner

It shakes the very foundations of your firmly held beliefs.

You tread upon the untrodden path without a stir

You allowed me to dream without a blur

You fashioned finality within chaos

Now hold on to give it my dying touch.

Even when I will not be around

You will be there to sing my song.