Gallows

They know of me but don't see
Buried 6 ft. deep in their brain
Decimated dream pouring white rain...
Gallant ghosts pay company
In an abyss of onyx bliss
Demons portray love
Which blood has cast away
Crystal snakes slither like liquid mirrors
Across soft peaks,cliffs & plains
Of face...
To dribble and slip in, a deaf dam
On a lily pad of pink sand...
Hale hailed cascades
Slays the pregnant snow of
past memories...
Eyes cold and stark
To breathe rigged promise
As pirhanas belch on staunch heart
Ripped so plastic courage will drip
Along with golden naivete
That our eyes spit...
Split ends of illusion are snipped
Opaque paints the lips of cement
A grafittied headstone
Where evergreen secrets lay and
Faith's throat is slit...
Ivory crown cracked and chipped
Medulla oblongata pasta
Tangled,strained and limp
A soul strangled adrift...
In the vise of life
Wounds deep and shallow
Dug in til stoically mellow
To pace in mute,peaceful,pain...
The tiger in my legs
Prowling the onyx shadows
Down in these here gallows.
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