Beyond this world
what becomes of us
hungry as night
desecrated by day
vengeful beings
hung by our own advances
inpenetrable
honestly needing direction
feasting on ignorance
but salivating for guidance
what chance is there for that here
amongst the wasted
the wretched
the complacent
arising from within us all
as lackluster as the light
burning for recognition
hardly deserving
bastard souls
torrid beings
feverishly feeding
needing to top off
the rush
the sensual abyss
the eternal yearnings
festering within
as cumbersome as life
that out weighs everything
sordid and shamed are we
or without conscience
of the immortal
and ritual like games we play
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"Feasting on ignorance
but salivating for guidance
what chance is there for that here"
I really llike that. A perfect metaphor for a lot of things but for me right now; main stream media!
I like this poem very much.
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And from the quagmire
washes up bloody
faces accused
rubbed with vengeance
nothing short of somber
the painstaking torment
the mighty backward fall
onto beds of knives
kissing poison ivy again
tongue forked
crooked are the days
lurking are the hours
around every corner
of ones mind
drifting into centuries
feeding off the bread of the ego
of the indecisive gods
the drudgery of it all
as the day slides into night
your head shifts its thoughts
and no backing out of this one
as the moon calls
in a presumptious echo
suddenly your home
it has you
nowhere to go
cocooned in dread
home again
Time does not evade us hear
Fallen onto ourselves
and onto this earth
Tears without weeping
left stained
indifferent
merciless the way
your hands clasped at nothing
grasping at invisible straws
and their eyes staring without seeing
looking without focusing
perhaps even glaring
feverishly their voices rising
Time does not ever claim them hear
amidst the emptiness of the corridors
unbenownst to any of them
their own timely sin
breaching of a lawful trust
Sanity never stricken
but merely put aside
bloodshed in treason
spots on the makings of a man
shattered sympathy
gleaming with some misfate
a half-life
idling
negligent in his values
or even in his heresy
He stands tall yet awkward
as if meaning to say something
to force the words through his lips
No use in pushing them though
fondling without touching
speaking in riddles
without uttering a simple sound
heaven hath never known of
a solid fool as he
he is mindless and lathargic
a king of his own drudgery
An eviction in the making
entertaining his own pettiness
a warlord of inferiority
has he a complex?
Or is he doomed to his own disease
They fall in line
not questioning
heeding each word he pervades
There is no twinkle in his eye
Hardly a stagnant glimmer or flurry
not a spark
just his deafening undertones
his mindless outcries
speaking of not a thing
and then fading away
his vioce dropping
his look
almost dignified
lost for a second in his intention
he is clueless yet fortunate
gaining respect through
some malignant plight or debauchery
I stand in his shadows
wishing to crawl back from fate
itching for some healing
some banishment from my own
grueling agony
tormented in my terror
held back from the grazing of my own convictions
No mercy still
no fury more eloquent
no rage more distilled
and so frozen lie my fears
as if awaiting some rash thawing
he remains unmoved
not even a twitch
he is ever the statue of ignorance
In the time and space between
us and them
dividing us still
echoing in our souls
restoring our faiths in one thing
apon our dreams
lay a crust
once swept away
reform overcomes
Process this
you must
call to me and weave
a pathway
leading us at once
clear across the cauldron
breaking past
the gateway
driving us to fear
living in our conscience
numb beyond refrain
damned to lost salvation
So who leads us hear
from dusk to dawn
who lures the spear
that drives us backwards
crawling beyond the landscape
landmines besiege us
becoming our core entity
and I have yet to assist you
in your demise
apon the sanctity
This great earth
a hollow graveyard
I turn to you
taking in nothing
trust burned
spirit sold
I relinquish my sorrow
my undying pain
and am forced back under
Them, with their knife like stares
slicing me with each glare
gashes across the threshold of my
minds eye
Should I go on
faith lost
as the sordidness mounts
I am forced to beckon
to the enchanted kingdom
whom I once bestowed upon my reign
And so it seems when a part of one dies
and you are still living
are you even alive
and so the time left has been tainted
I can't see behind my life
behind my self
inside
blackness
abandonment
whirling from within
who can understand
or might wish to
and so my bones ache
and my heart
an emptiness
something torn from me
not my chioce entirely
not anyones "chioce"
A part of me dies
still will forever be dieing
laying continuously dormant
like a turbulent storm thats been anchored
for a spell
swollen and enlarging
about to succumb and envelop everything
And now the scolding of the memories
wash me dirty with indifferance
and not a more honest emotion is felt
not a more lethal tear disposed
collecting in my sanctuary
pelting my heated head
baked from within
seared as if to burn away everything
one last touch
hollow
a crimson smear
I am helpless to defend
not even remotely empowered
so stay away
my trepassers
who trudge on my day
and throw pity into the dawn of it
shame on them and their bloody haste
I am sanctioned by my own rage
like a walking, oozing open wound
drunk by my destiny
sanity in ruins
going through the motions in suspended pretend
if these walls could talk
the sweet walls
like canopys of carmelized flesh
stretching, devouring, towering
all encompassing
it's not just rumured
but all too promising
my knees deep in sin
the glory we denounce rank in
the bile and the piss one can thrive in
then as we sow our oats
and crawl from oblivion
what is there
too much of nothing
short on substance
a brigade of ignorance
and blunt sharp shooters
throwing daggers in the wind
Suffering in my flesh
trapped in the folds
you disappear
as do the hours
than reappear as butterflies
unveiled is my horror
a faceless man
forked tongue and
he lies beside a river
knee deep in sin
I suggest
he’s a southern gent
a true charmer
not to be he is evil
throwing me dagger like glances
he is swallowed in misery
wading in a pool of ineptitude
I sympathize with him for a moment
then I wish him dead
And the frost on the trees
and the frost on the trees
and the amber leaves and weeds and grass
the forest ahead
never appears the same
what's new is old
never mind the rain
or it's persistence
traveling with me are my thoughts
keeping me company
behind me is a graveyard of memories
I killed along the way
suffer my desire
the creek of my empathy
gutted and dried up
so as is my fear
numb to all other existence
even to a higher power
wonder how to keep going
as I am living but dying inside
seeking my savior
is she pile of crisp autumn leaves
is she the sap, a sticky patch of reverie?
is she a twig I trampled some miles back?
is she the stream I drank from or a puddle
I treaded through?
She will show her face
some day
maybe in a strange yet familiar place
knowing her will bring me no solace
fortunato I may call her
dead to the world
my drudgery
my heart of splinters
freeze-dried and heavy with tainted blood
and bloated vessels
Some of her words might prove healing
or her ways maybe spiritual
me a lost soul
clinging to anything
sufficed to find meaning
in the ghoulish gloom of my
labyrinth like trail
hard pressed to salvage something
my sanity
am I but a fool?
or will I ever find me
perhaps I was gone long ago
a shell is what remains
I can only save what’s become of me
white light
somber and sorrow stricken
meager and limp
like a hawk with a severed wing
And the times are wasteful
they bind us and suffocate us
they seal us off to the dawn of the day
I with my wounds I once prayed
someone show me the light at the end
Anyone bring me hope
carry me the rest of the way.
Is there an end to this ominous oblivion?
locking me away
fear for the sake of fearing
hollowed are my screams
my grievances
dismal like the day
falling back upon the cold steal earth
Then hide as I like
finding you in this bitter world
a sparrow, stowed away from the chill of night
or a long last kiss
to keep the demons at bay
jettisoned
saved only by the madness in humility
you are one but you lay down with many
you have fought your way
I am a dreamer who has floated along
stumbled on obstacles along the way
and the frost on the lake
and the frost on the lake
thicker than the fog
overtop like pea soup
voices scatter
as do my vices in this pending hour
the braver I feel
the more my guilt drives knives into me
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