The War Inside
Your dignity, it's safe to say, Has swiftly gone and flown away. The beast in you has gone to pay Respects to her once more. She's neither dead--no, nor departed, It's just the fire that she's started, In your heart to burn away, All else and...
Haught, Blight, Human Plight
Hot skin, warm breasts. Life beating through all our chests. One wish, one desire, one purpose, held tight, treasured and denied. Our pain our shame, our curse. One wants teats, another tongues, another toes. And yet: My cheeks burn red with...
A Crude Man's Prayer
_Yes, let me take you down to that spring, where our love can be expressed..._ _No need for tears or fighting, and our hearts shant be suppressed,_ _It's a cruel world out there, so here's the job for us--_ _We'll be crueller still in our...
Forelorn
So what is this judgement that you seek to pass? Invisible world, unheard of, unseen. Only spoken and written--legacy of a man. Thirteen years ripped out. Thirteen. Twelve of them were yours, one turned on you. So they speak of you like a legend,...
Carnality
Day in, day out, without another way. I stare up at her on the wall as if I'm trying to say: "I want you to come off that sheet and share this life with me." It's cruel, it's cold, it's reality, that takes her far from me. It's some girl's...
Agnosticism
Are you the artist? Can you say? Or has that too gone, run away? It seems that time has come once more, Our respects again to pay. The way is clouded, dark, and bleary, As your eyes grow tired and weary, The road grows crooked, steep, and...
Mousetrap Binary
I will rise From this squalid body, Will I rise Place a rapier through your ribs Crush the old definition, Embracing all the while Get a rise I rise from bed, Sense of safety defunct Empty, crushing pressures-- Expectations rise, He awakes...