Tumultuous Darkness

Steadily upon the sterile hallway
A crooked grin beseeches upon the castaways
The neglected, the abused, the traumatized
His thoughts spiraling into corporeal slaughter
A mind consumed with ethereal voices
The void in his stomach as hollow as his soul

A knife coddled in one hand,
a virulent disposition jammed in the other
embarking on a sanctimonious expedition
With archaic parchment in tow
chained to its wretched doctrine
a voluntary prisoner bound in blood.
and a tidy haircut freshly trimmed.

Swaddling a briefcase decayed as Cleopatra
sheltered by a man's prodigious facade.
An inviting proclamation he declared
was a generous offering bestowed to an institution
persecuted by Alcotts and Mcarthys alike.  

Nervously ticking like an antique clock
Within its licentious 6x10 confines
lays a menagerie of snarled, mangled wires
like an orgy of hissing rattlesnakes entwined.
Mounds of concrete shield the faux samaratin's eardrums
A bulwark against shrieks of the damned belting in cacophony.

As the scaffolding plunges into smoke
And the silenced victims number in dozens
The man adorned by exquisitely combed scalp
And sinister sneer of a leopard
Scoffs and giggles at the completion of his work
A masterpiece of carnage, a circus of agony.

A singular scream, a shriek of indignation
pierces his auditory fortress of wax
A crack in its grandiose engineering
breaths a meager sigh of regret in his lungs
A crack with the potential to multiply
but sealed with ducktape post-haste.

The monster preaches good faith.
The monster is unbroken
The monster shattered all of his mirrors
The monster is within us
Desperate to emerge.





 

  
Hey o'l blue eyes
is this better way  
over here  
is my silence worth  
more than  
it's weight in gold  
   
Knowing damn  
well after twenty  
eight year's of  
redundancy  
my gold is  
naught but fools  
gold in your  
eyes alone it's  
worthless  
 
"Could you just  
shut your fucking  
mouth for once  
in this  
godforsaken  
marriage"  
finally I snap  
 
Disdain glaring  
dislike from
raging sea's of
blue violent
riptides
drowning me in ocean's of truth

Panic surging  
gut roiling  
fear racing  
tears stinging  
suffocating hurt
 
Faithful
companion's
kiss of chaos  
   
Swirls of grey  
freeze numbing of  
all senses since  
before our  
marriage,
exhausted I
again allow
the ease  
   
Suddenly energized  
with
powerful strength
ready to battle as  
well as
rock calm
steadiness

A soft turn of heel  
our  
eye's locking
mine unwavering
yours widening barest of shift
body bracing
freeze
of Ice flowing
from  
our eye's
clipping the  
flow of word's

"How dare you
treat me like  
the maniac you
truly are  
finally you've  
stepped across  
the wrong line  
   
my line  
   
If up to me I'd  
saw that viper  
tongue of  
venom carefully,  
painfully  
popping out the  
bloody bit of  
poisonous delicacy  
placing it upon  
my own tongue  
   
chewing ever so  
slowly, eye's of  
stormy blue while  
watching you wince  
and whimper  
   
purring as slippage  
of  
your blood's bitter  
bite  
drips a drop along  
my bottom lip  
   
you are naught
but spineless,
weak and inept
definitely not
a strong,
respectable  
soldier of survival
as claimed

more like a
pathetic,
mangy stray
dog  
   
listen real close I  
will not repeat it  
   
start backing
the fuck off
no more cruel,  
demeaning,
snip snap of  
reprehensible  
vileness maybe
it's time for  
regulated reminders

I'll never see the  
inside of  
a filthy, disease  
ridden cage of  
steel or have you  
already  
forgotten the
doc's stern
word's

"private sanitarium"  
   
endless supplies of  
mind numbing  
medications  
drifting while  
attended by  
respectable,
kind and gentle  
folk

best be
keeping that in  
mind my little  
buttercup"  
   
Turn of heel in a  
quick  
stride casually  
tossing  
over shoulder
"best  
be staying out
of our private  
quarters tonight
or all the god's    
above won't be  
able to help  
either one of us  
   
love you most  
said it first  
I beat you  
Nighty  
Night Shoney"  
   
She's pure  
sweetness like  
honey dripping  
from a warm biscuit        
  

Let it go
You’re only hurting yourself more
When you hold onto
The things that hurt you before.
The warm sunlight shines on me
Yet I still feel cold          
Sometimes I question my worth
Is there some purpose for which I serve?
I’m always told to just believe
Yet I have no hope.    
Don’t fear the night
It’s only ignorance giving you that fear
I’ll make your days feel bright
Don’t you worry, I’m here
Just open your eyes
And see the pure beauty all around
It’s really quite a sight
Then comes along the sound.
I take a deep breath
And I listen to the sounds around me
As I open my senses
I realize there’s more than I see.
Whether it’s day or night
There’s never a solid answer
How can there be a wrong or right?
When we’re rotten through with cancer.
You see the world as black or white
I see the world in shades of grey
For you there’s only wrong or right
But I think that it’s naive to say
That evil only comes out at night.