Waving to me
From your good-bye window
I catch the scent
Of this last hurrah
A Fourth-of-July
Grand finale
Complete with the
Bombs bursting in air
Powder and energy
Heat and purpose
Destroyed in a flash
Clouded by the sulfur scent
Washing the air dirty
And you wave to me
Mouthing the words
I cannot hear
Words I don’t want to hear
From silent lips speaking
This final message
Ringing in my ears
Is this all?
All this is?
It is gone
Take my eyes
For they lead me nowhere
Eyes too blind to see
Blind to the ways
The world cast before me
Blind to the bodies
At my feet
Drive stakes through my ears
For they will not hear
The warnings to be heeded
The songs that surround
And remove my tongue
Cursed and forked
Spewing words like
Thunderclouds of pain
Soaked in a venomous spit
That corrodes every soul
Cut off my hands
These tools of the devil
Crafting little more than
Demise and despair
They will not feel
Nor heal with a touch
Useless implements
They work no more
Slice open my chest
And the organs within
A heart that beats
A blood like poison
Lungs that breathe
The breath that rusts
And an acrid liver
Imbibed too often
With the misery
I have created
Destroy this flesh
Burn it away
And destroy this life
Remove these memories
Sour and misleading
Then let me be reborn
The man I long to be
Escaping the pain
The past
The loss
The memories
And the knowing
Of what this life has been
Time slips away
We warmly greet
Each coming day
While dark clouds
Fill the sky
A summer’s last breath
I chase after
Those warm days past
Grasping at what is left
A kite string
Quickly blowing
Out of reach
With an autumn wind
Uncontrolled
Out of my control
I cannot control
This passing
The changing of these seasons
When the golden leaves fall
Covering the lively ground
Turning everything brown
The death embrace
Comes too quickly
Leading in a winter freeze
The procession of life
This life in my hand
The only one
A gift to live
And autumn comes too soon
COMMENTS
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Joli
16:26 Mar 25 2009
I love so many places in this piece.
Blackheresy
14:42 Mar 29 2009
"Clouded by the sulfur scent
Washing the air dirty" Great lines man, there are more that feed into the feeling here as well, but I like the way these roll off my tongue when I voice them aloud.
brileybeauford666
00:29 Jan 10 2011
You really need to consider publishing your words. B, you are extremely talented. Don't let the world miss out on you................