Damocles

Damocles Apr 11

She sings in falsetto
Raising the tempo higher
Octaves crashing upon the glass
Shattering shards, simple and sharp
Cut into the thick of the meat
And as I bleed, I applaud
A deafening death serenaded
What a splendid show.-
On down we go.

Short but bittersweet

#brevity #singing #sung #falsetto #operatic #romantic #love #death

Damocles Apr 11

Journeymen's Last Journal Entry

Where the silence echoes
One can hear the longing murmur,
Calling from the deepest depths below,
A haunting chill that grips the throat
A yelling scream like an eager goat,
I yearn for love in all the wrong spaces
Taking up all of my favorite places
Hoping I can escape this …
One last kiss to the maiden’s graces
Before I fade into the great abyss.

I started this wanting to rhyme "oh" sounds and then it morphed into this.

#journeyman #love #despair #emptiness #longing #retirement

Damocles Apr 11

Juke Box Betty

Juke box playing
Triggering memory
There’s rain falling sideways
Reminds me of misery.

Another drink of the green
Chase the fairy, in a land of make-believe
Anywhere I can roam, a place that I can go
Escape the tendrils of reality.

Bruised lips kiss the bottle --
Hoping it can save the pain,
Bible recitals, hoping verses can absolve again
There’s a black box full of secrets
Crashing into the greenery, a lost plane,

“Help me,” scribbled down on a napkin,
A careless sigh from the bar-keep, handing me an aspirin
Demons lean in whisperin’,
Won’t listen, no, can’t let them in.

Dance floor neon -
Calling like a moth to flame,
I’ll let it all loose, let my mind reframe.
But the blood on my hands doesn’t wash
I see her within the stains.

“What did I do? How do I stop?”
I ask in vain
Juke box playing,
Triggering a memory.
Rain falling sideways--
Reminds me of her misery.

One of the things I took up as a hobby was criminal psychology, i like true crime and all of that stuff, so this was a piece that was in my journal that started out with me trying to get in the mind of a remorseful killer, pure fantasy, born out of my love for criminal psych and true-crime

#****** #psychology #criminology #psychotic #break #lucid #drunk

Damocles Apr 11

Growth

I wonder if trees feel pain when the red buds sprout green,
As leaves struggle to break free and emerge,
Flowing resplendently—
With a radiant verdant glow as the sun shines down.

A genuine thought I had pre-coffee and sneezing my head off.

#trees #spring #seasonal #sun #growth #plants #nature #metaphor #brevity

Damocles Apr 10

In A Sea of Flames IV

I’ll disappear,
Like a caustic wind,
Pestilent, killing growth
Bridges made of vines divide
Greener pastures die, wheat yellow brittle
And in the blink of an eye
I fade away, ethereal, lost in the expanse.

Far out of reach, the stars betray
Misaligned, I can’t trace your face
Lost in the splendor of diamonds
I’ve blinded myself--
Flailing like a flickering flame,
Effortlessly burning for you
Endlessly searching the cosmos.

Brackish waters,
Consume me,
Pull me under to the bottomless
Floating in the deepest depths
Indebted for the moments stolen,
All I see in this infinite is a silhouette
Staring back in an umbral effigy
Will it feed my lungs oxygen
So I can breathe you in one last time?

We romanticize the dagger piercing,
Ripping tissue and muscle to find,
My heart lacked a cadence,
Syncopated, arhythmic.
Moribund feelings mourn love
That you stole like a hoarding wyrm,
Smaug smelting until the smog
Cast me in the molten gold
Plated for your pleasure

Arctic cold,
The skin has gone rough
Eyes bored out and reddened;
Anger steeped like a Sunday tea
I’ve been granted a chance,
Seize away humility.
And chase the storms that married me.

A cyclone wedged inside a typhoon
Bedded with a knife wound
I’ve carved my heart in the shape of one,
A valentine unsent in the place of your scent
I smell of smoldering flesh
I am of the lingering dead
Swamp bathed and doused in kerosene
Can you see my devotion now?

As I dance alone,
Under the starlit nocturne
In a sea of flames!

not a typo, I've written three others that kind of complement this piece. I'll eventually post the others, but this was good enough to stand alone in my own humble opinion

#love #loss #death #longing #hurt #pain #sadness #yearning

Damocles Apr 10

Medusa and Hemlock

Cold as winter’s snow,
Fear’s gravity weighed down my eyes,
Making my sight fixed on her radiant beauty.
Serpents in her hair and a serpentine sway of her hips hissed everywhere,
And she moved with an elegant snare.
Her cold and envious green gaze, like radiant jade, struck me.
I felt like one among the garden, growing vines from my mouth agape,
A simple possession ****** upon the beat of love.
But as copper tarnishes, so does my marbled finish,
Decaying and eroding through her ages.
She uses my form as an aegis,
and I am happily a common-place decor, a vase for her discretion.
Torn into malignant pieces,
I am fed to her hunger, taken in until visceral walls collapse the fragile rock.
Medusa, a love so starving that I would eat hemlock.

a gothic style romance piece

#dark #goth #mythology #medusa #serpent #brevity