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Memories Become dancing sparks Starved for the contours Of a drifting mind I allow the moments Spent far ago To cradle the present I am doomed to cleave Leather – bound romance Grows to a menacing fog Echoing, the sweet nothings That plagued my former self I no longer reel For fondness reigns supreme Coddling,…
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I’ve no shame, left to offer Only bones Plucked clean Stripped, of all former dignity I scavenge the days Pocketing The prized merit of strangers Swallowing whole Honest tribulations As I wither Enclosed By self-neglect Yet I’ve no regrets Not a scrap of remorse to spare For daybreak remains in tatters I haven’t the urge …
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The unseen caverns Rave with my voice Brimmed with the smoke Of harbored, life-long regrets Solitude bays Mirroring The agony I keep Isolation Cries and beckons With the same dismay Awaiting, clarity’s loom I sprawl no longer In this phony refuge The placid comfort That yields no more Perpetual night Thieves me of balance And…
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Where the lights Were unable to follow A stillness prevailed From a young, bashful heart In bloom At long last He flourished quietly Through the cold depths of night Bereft Of the rude Shimmering of day He scaled higher and higher With vibrant hues Blossoming, the entire way Life Now lurked from below Coiled in…
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From the ashes Guilt, blared its dismay While the winds belowed Their murderous refrain The smoke climbed With a hungry vigor Scouring for the young Their grim hearts Driven, to the furnace of mayhem Docile voices Were claimed With the greatest haste As the earth Madly quivered In each thoughtless Crater spawned Thundering heroes Knew…
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I thrive Rooted, in three prong sockets Coursing with the world And all its fine bounty My flesh remains Loyal to stagnation As these hollow eyes dart And roam, with curious vigor Hunched forth With lips ajar As the living set sail As the callous expire Without a sound My being unravels In the zombiesque…
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The wind raids my lungs As my frame tussles In the chokehold of sleep Sprung awake Into the clutches of night I ponder What could have been For slumber Has bid a hasty farewell And I have not The stomach to return Ghastly dreams Plague the endless dark In the foyer of reveries Where delusion …
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Procede Is the ascending chorus Blaring with vigor In the aft of my mind The unwavering glow Amidst the mire of angst A defiant outpost Ever-brazen Against each gust of torment It is the stoic banner Proudly aflutter Charging forth Into the fray Swelling, all valor within Procede Jolts me forth And I jet away…
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Through the day’s rolling waves I remain Clung to stagnation Unmoved in the surge Of daily strangers The casual chatter Of aimless passersby My placid nerves Are the conquest Of coddled fear The terror I cradle In the folds Of my tattered psyche By my own hands I am rendered motionless Retaining the world’s bounty…
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Through the daily spiral We accelerate Until the world blends To a colorful pulp Faster and faster Our insides churn In our maddening Tiring descent We are to be The lost scavengers Of a world undone When the skies fade As we scale deeper down To our primal lows To the depths of our being…