Shadow Boxing

Self-loathing inept feckless vile creature

Coffin nails overflow the ashtrays
previous  nights genocidal offerings

A slow waltz plays, as the light and dark dance
Knives out, dancing deaths embrace


Whom created this monster
Wasn't he crucified on the needle?

Light a fire beneath yggdrasils roots

Flay the dead man once more
Masochistic fools mala vida

Here we lie again
a smoldering mess of our creation


Repeating the evenings ritual
Reignited herbal concoction called a spliff

Blinds scarcely conceal the dawns blinding light

Somehow still here
Still breathing
Still thinking
Still fighting
Still beating
Still
Still

Clouds and those silver linings of reprieve