Submissions by obscure_enigma (JL)

Absinthe-soaked eyes cheat despair
in drowsy green tides of vertigo
men have sought rare divinities fair
such, I discovered in the only shape I know

smoking fountains I shall gulp by storm
‘til shadows kiss the bitter clouds gone
In such strong spirits, you take eternal form
translucent…timeless…untouched by the sun

Let my straying arms shape your waist
disrobing you of inanimateness
to those lascivious lips, allow me a taste
to smooth away our hearts’ distress
alive as my fingers trace your flesh
streaming ecstasy in your...

Ladies and gentlemen, under the spotlight stands
nature's most tragic mistake – The egotistic man
physically unremarkable, it has instead
deformed beliefs and a hole for a head
inflated self-importance, bloated to the full
governed by frailty to desire, hate and ego

Guests of the Grandstand, observe as you wish
a fright lucidly not for the squeamish
confined in fallacious notions of love and glory
it feeds most faithful to its god Money–
favored above an unholy trinity of Pride, Vanity, Lust
Oh, the sure fact this freak walks amongst us
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