The muse remembers what it means
Why shadow this heart in oblique desires
Encrusted in gilded silver
Let the rain ring down
Drowning
Feathering the insane
In a coagulated future
Affirmation from the dreams
That were never spent
Never sent
While this madness barks
From beneath these blessed layers
Of tainted
Inked
Skin
Fragmented unfoldings dipped in translucent blues
Listening to the screams of those who want to die
I will paint these colours in a different hue
Sable haired promises
Clasped in the mouths that are dry
Tourniquets tighten around the truth
Whisper silence from the depths of a breath
Awaken my dear and look at tomorrow
Skinned in persimmon upon the cloud
Pray for the sinners
Pray for the black motorcade
Pray for the sins that Ive made
Live in this skin and tell me what its like to begin
Simple in sorrow
Porcelain pictures decorate my arms
A shadow crosses my vision
Slowly
I begin to die
I lay and let the rain caress
Eyelids resting gently together
Content
That the bridges Ive crossed
I burnt today
4 comments:
For those that comment and tak ethe time to read, i thank you
no turning back eh? smiles...nice penning...may the rain bring you comfort in your passing...smiles. i'd still pray for you...
and i really like the make over on your place man...
Really like this--I was savoring lines in every stanza that seemed to come from that other realm of the muse from which we get our best stuff telegraphed to us--going wish I'd gotten that one. 'coagulated future..' and 'tomorrow skinned in persimmon upon the cloud' just for openers. Yeesh. Plus the whole poem has the feel of an intact autonomous living entity, not just little jewels of phrase on a rack. Fine work,AG,
Blindingly covered in ribbons of velvet texture with razor sharp perception!
Immense balance throughout this whole piece and I have to say, I have noticed of late that the summing up of your poetry is something extremely awe inspiring, you create a landscape of emotion...let it reel and then take the reader through forests they sometimes do not wish to enter...all summed up with a bite after the tease....
Powerful piece love xoxo
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