Submissions by tomguenther

You flung my hand into the boiling pot of water
Led me astray like a communist daughter
Wept so much that the ashes on the ground were saturated with your tears
Cut through them and inside saw your own latent fears
Laughing at you like a king at a jester
Aborting the baby before it can make hand gestures
Somber soliloquies with which you paint your thoughts
Diving down into obscurity more often than not
Thoughts meander back to a time when you weren’t trapped in your mental prison
Shooting guns at stars with almost pristine precision
In time I hope you...

Popping pills dripping nose
All to compose wistful prose
To enter a state of perpetual repose
Stability defined by the petals of a rose
Blanching my dreams so I may know
What is real and what has to go
Snowflakes melting so spring can come
Depositions refined by the barrel of a gun
Numb and dumb under society’s thumb
Stuck on the bottom of a pool like scum
Fused into brittle hair like gum
Thinking how I’ve become to some
A menace a pauper an elegant bum
Smooth as silk only when I’m full of rum
Brazen and bitter when the fun’s all done...