Maniacal Escape

Maniacal Escape May 2023

Cheese.

Insanity slipping through
the cracks in a chapped lip grin.
Its all ok
It was never ok.
It will never ever be ok.

Just say cheese.

Maniacal Escape May 2023

Echo chamber

Are you not happy?
All alone?
This is what you wanted?
All along?

Deafened by silence.
All alone.
Burned all his bridges.
On his way home.

Maniacal Escape Apr 2023

Soldier

Calamity up the nostrils
In tidy little lines.
Chaos behind the eyes
In sly uneven smiles.

Maniacal Escape Apr 2023

Green bottles

Clink of glass on glass
Life blood pouring forth
Cold and sour
Slick and good
The haze will claim us soon

Maniacal Escape Apr 2023

Salvation

Heartbeat clipping at his brain
He lies in his puddle of misery
Breath absent
Feelings dull
A smile rips across his face.

Maniacal Escape Apr 2023

Deliverance

Stupor putrefies.
Knees wobble and hands prostrate.
Spirit slows its breathing.
Beholden to the madness
Laity massed around.
Sip. Sip. Drip. Drip.
Pray the sun doesn't rise tomorrow.

Maniacal Escape Apr 2023

Bag Gabriel. Bad Gabriel.

The finger seeps from the clouds,
caressing the corners of his mind.
His eyes widen at the horror.
Pulse fast, hands cold.
Decision final.
Go again.