Seduce me
With your eyes
Tantalize me
With your words
Push me
To the edge
And hold me there
It’s almost done
Little me
Go hide away
Don’t let them see
It’s ending soon
Just close your eyes
So you won’t see
Those awful lies
You tell yourself
It’s for the best
Just one more time
Just one long rest
It’s over now
Just go to sleep
When you wake…
The canvas sat bare
As I could not get
My shattering heart to pose
A magic pill
A slow slide
Down the hole
Mind escapes
As chaos enslaves
A touch
Fervid and igniting
•
A body of straw
Scorched
•
Words
Malicious and annihilating
•
A heart of ice
Vaporized
My angel
Locked in a cage
Devil’s comin’
Beware his rage
He’ll steal your
Celestial glow
Pluck each wing
Each feather a blow
But the devil don’t know
What he can’t see
Love surrounds
The angel in thee
He’ll pummel
Till black & blue
But he will not take
Your hope from you
Little by little
Battered and bruised
Elements of her body
Her soul
Disappearing
*
Taken and tortured
By Man’s greed
*
Gluttony and bloodshed
Seeping into her pores
Poisoning her
*
She lashes out
Inundated with tears
Wailing and quaking
The flames of her anger
Rage on
*
Man does not
Obey
Her decrees
Heed
Her roars
Her distemper propagates
*
Loss and starvation
Misery and death
Will consume man
*
Allowing her restoration
“What’s past is past”
“Forget the past”
“Leave the past behind”
Lies we tell ourselves
To get over love
Control our grief
Box our emotions
Forget
Forget
Forget
~
We cannot lobotomized
Our memories
Our pain
Our grief
We can only live with
Learn from
And never forget
When a storyline
In one’s life
Reaches its end
Expectations are
The story is over
•••
However, once a story
Has been written
It exists forever
In one’s mind
•••
Damn it!
In my dreams last night
Unwanted ghosts of my past
Visited me
Disturbing my slumber
Still lingering once I woke
Haunting me throughout my day
For intangible entities
Their memories continue
Weighing me down
B.A. Wilcox © 