If it had a voice
it would shriek

It would scream
into the pitch night

Never to be seen

If it had a body
it would ****

Lay waste to empires
through the night

Never to be conquered

Yes, a ravager in the night
the war cry of an iron will

She loves my respect
and odd idiolect

Hey there cutie
I'm not your true love you see

But for a night
I'll make you feel alright

If you'll let me
I'll help you see

A world of oddities
among the commodities

The stars above
and the call of a dove

My words may shock you
but you'll find them to be true

Man
how simple times were

How chaotic they seemed
before I knew

Friends and lovers are like sand
slipping from your hand

No matter
how like iron your grip is

They go

Leaving you
and a blank page

Don't even try
to write on it

You'll quickly find
your ink turns to rage

Blood flowing
from a bone pen

And you will look back

You will look on with disgust
and try to never trust

never again

NEVER AGAIN.

I tried
to build a house

A fortress
to keep us safe

But you

You had other plans

A sledgehammer
broke the bricks

And concrete
was no match

I still wonder

If he hadn't offered a home

If you would be on the couch
cozying up next to me

But that doesn't matter now

Two saw this broken house
and decided it was home

Refugees
huddled around the fire

Hey kid

your warranty is up
the demons are here

what's your play?

Are you gonna stay?

come now, don't fight it
let us take you away.

there's a cab out back

just step in
and we'll take you someplace

far far from here.

no, it doesn't matter where.

this wretched place
hasn't treated you fair

they say they care
and still want you to stay?

c'mon kid, it's time to go.

maybe tomorrow
they'll lie and say

they loved you
and act shocked that you're gone

come with us kid

you'll be safe when it slips

and watch as your body drips

White scars
with bright red paralysis

Burning blood

The white
is too bright

Soft glow
of turbulence in calm

Burning eyes

My friends and I
we hide

In a burning prison
in which we fight

Incinerated heart

These things broke me
a shattering that anyone can see

Holding my glass
hands bleeding

Red as I stab

Everything I don't like
until I die

With an incinerated body and mind

In lonely rooms
the end comes too soon

But hey,
not such a bad way to go

With a bullet in your head
blood splattering your pet succulent

At least it's not suffering
in the pale sunlight

Watching it glint
between the panes

As they tell you
that there's so much to live for

When you know
the opposite is true

Good for you
you clipped my wings

Watched me crash to the ground

I swear we were flying

But it seems it was
just my ****** gums, knuckles, and thighs

Are you happy?
you hurt me unlike the others

Are you happy?
taking but hardly giving

When I pledged my soul
I never knew you intended to shred it

Or make my head
just a trophy on your wall.

Why praise god
when the ******'s out to get you?

If he is truly a father
he is the paragon of abuse

Sickness, famine, plague
how universal the suffering is

When I was young
I believed the lies

That there was someone up there
someone who loved me and my brothers

Then I saw how

The gift of eternal bliss corrupts

And how he is a madman

If such a madman truly exists
then how can anyone love him

If it is not some form
of a sickening Stockholm syndrome?

Liquid gold through my veins
all for you

To sell in an exchange
an exchange of reins

Finish it
whatever you came here to do

Watch me shimmer
as you polish every hit

I'll serve until
you watch me collapse

Parts upon the ground
until you drag me to the landfill

Fire exists
only to serve

The likes of an oppressor
and the likes of a hero

Burning everything it touches
singing the very fabric

That it rests upon

it's warmth brings you through
the night till it's over

Ambrosia upon earth

How much are you willing to pay?

In that forgotten ruin
that cabin in the woods

I see the remnants of love and sin

The weathered furniture
well loved but forgotten

Will return to nature, I'm sure

An old man
may gaze upon these things

Artifacts from which he ran

But for now the ruins stand
among the cool shade trees

And burning sand

I made a pact
In the shady part of town

My heart
For an unknown price

They said
“The sun will lose the moon”

I agreed
Because I knew not what he meant

Now I’m cast out of the sky
Watching her dance

Just not with the sun.

I'm not a poet
just a guy who writes

She is
her talent is raw

I'm a stuttering mess
hell, that's never happened

But, somewhere between
the realm of today and tomorrow

she shows me what art is

she shows me things I can't describe

tell me, how?
how is life breathed?

into words so flawlessly

tell me, how?
how did this happen to me?

falling so impossibly

Our love was a war

we started campaigning

for what we believed in

tensions rose

and shards

like shrapnel

tore our faces

the allies and the axis

destroying each other

senselessly

seemingly for fun

Skeletons
bleached in the river

Bones turning to dust
as animals graze

Machine gun fire
bursting rounds of three

A man bleeding out on the shore
finished by speeding lead

The skeletons watch it all
in silent contemplation

When it's over

Discard the feelings
but not the memories

Of all the love

And if there was a lack thereof
learn from the pain

These are lessons

I learned the hard way

If only I could show I've learned

This is it
the end of the high

The start of the low

I can see it
Through death's sullen eyes

The yearning for my soul

And perhaps I'll waltz
in death's arms

Just not close enough for a kiss

Dance dance
dance you ****** fool!

Sand in your eyes
not like they worked anyway

Feel the water
crest your ankles

Your tears
they match the sea

Let the sand
burn your skin and eyes

Run as fast as you can
god knows you won't make it

Iron graces my tongue
Hephaestus' ferrous fire

My song won't be sung
accompanied by drum or lyre

This won't end
never now or later

See the burns
on your most worthy opponent

See how far
how far you bent

A creeping black
destroys me from within

I'll never go back
to our wandering sin

You command me
to destroy it all

I'll always see
the result of your call

In my corner I suffer
with the coroner I'll rot

Nyx's crown sits
heavily atop my head

Like how stone grits
with me it is fed

Darkness
that I'll never escape

Regardless
it's just death's jape

And I'll live another day
because it is my say

You
always said to me

Starlight
never seemed so bright

Rain
never felt so nice

You
never seemed dangerous

Black holes
never seemed so dark

Poison
never tasted so good

You
lied to me

My midnight lover
dances beneath the stars

Nothing shall cover
our deepest scars

In a waltz we'll reveal
secrets only we know

All the thoughts we try to seal
will be dashed upon the snow

Give me your ugly
give me your smile

Then you'll truly know
that I'd like you to stay a while

Rain graces my hair
small droplets from the air

life to the world
released when clouds have swirled

we may find asylum once again
in the clouds that block

the sun from all that's been
keeping misery's stock

we may all find change
in this world so strange

perhaps for the better
or merely an unwanted letter

This one's for my spark
my Hollywood sun

She's the song of a lark
with a brunette bun

A barista's style
in a coffee shop

A never ending smile
a resounding POP

A bird of paradise
flying among wires

As soon as I rise
I feel her fires

I want you
and only truly you

cold as snow
you're a Chicago summer

Hot like fire
I'm a California winter

Together we're a perfect storm

We make lightning
crash in the sky above

You are my muse, unlike any other
and I will fight in Satan's ring

To prove my love

Oh today
today is my birthday!

there will be no balloons
no poppers or cake

just some time with those I love
something nobody can take

it's almost 6:00 AM
soon I'll get my alert

telling me that I should have a nice day
and maybe this time I'll listen

The AM feeling
Is always something else

Sleep's sirens sing
A story that tells

Of struggles so far away
Merely the break of day

A yawn only heard by me
Not for another to see

My secret respite
So alone but I don't care

Here there is nothing to fight
This is a time and place so rare.

Golden like the sun
and beholden to none

We should've danced
around the graveyard

But I pranced
into the wrong yard

Now it burns
molten amber in my veins

As a fool learns
that death holds the reins

And smells smoky pine
as he claims to be fine

My starlit blood
Will curse the ground

Awash in a flood
Without a single sound

Galaxies in my eyes
Will fade without trace

The blue morning skies
Will never see my face

A supernova will ring
And death’s icy hand ungloved

Will hear me sing
A song of one that was loved

Things you burn
On your porch at night

Watching the fire churn
Until it all feels right

Preparing for tomorrow
When you’ll try to be enough

Drowning in your sorrow
Nobody said it’d be this rough

Watching the things you’ve lost
And things you’ve tossed

Into the fire

Burn

Those with melting skin
Running after me though

Years ago I’d been
Crumbling with them in the snow

They want my life
And my freedom to thrive

But though it’s rife
Some nights I dive

Into fields of frost
Burning all I am

Where I choke on exhaust
Where I’m overran.

Colloquially bent
With a positive alignment

Breath without falter
That’s what I put at the altar

Visions of what I wish I could be
But that isn’t me

I’m sorry
And for what I may never know

Who am I
But a piece of you?

In fields of rye
Lies become true.

A skinwalker
I stalk the night

I silently saunter
Between wrong and right

Your face is mine
For I miss my own

Straight down the line
Pain is sown

dark and cold
memories black and old

none can save me
so why would you dare try?

can you not see
how I can never cry?

no blood dripped
when my soul was ripped

to shreds on the floor
as i watched in pain

There's nothing in this life
for a nomad in the shrapnel rain.

My chest bleeds
And it all goes black

If you knew the seeds
You’d know it all goes back

To that moment I opened
My eyes to this cruel world

And then I listened
As their hatred unfurled

My body bleeds as a result
Of my first breath

An egregious insult
To the jaws of death.

Never stare into it
For too long

You may hear the siren song
Of the endless pit

That you may find within
Your hollow carcass

The void of sin
The lonely darkness

That corrodes your being
From within to out

And steals your feeling
But will never shout

Lungs screaming fire
Drooling ****** upon the ground

Drowning yourself in the pyre
Drowning out all other sound

A conflagration in your eye
Turning your will to ash

A blaze so high
It made the heavens crash

An ember so all-consuming
It took your very soul