Silence
There is a certain sound to silence -
A heaviness, an emptiness It echoes in the darkness;
The wounds it leaves behind
Bleed tears of acheing memory
Spilling out over the blade of a knife
Sharper than any metal and colder than any ice.Twist the knife. Feel the edge within you
Feel it pierce you
Know it for what it is -
The hungry touch of the teeth of silence.
Refugee
How vast is our jealousy?
Your jaded laugh torments
Alone from anger
You disdain haven
A lover's cry offers shallow comfort
The sadly buried joy
A refugee of pain.
Fading
burnt out candles gutter wildly
fading, failinging
trailing away into the deepening dusk
like whisps of life, breathed their last
their light long gone
and swallowed whole
the acrid scent of nothingness
beyond the tattered shroud of time
stirs forgotten memories -
bloody clawed and sharp of tooth
they crowd the shadows
waiting to pounce
the ghosts of shades
and all the brilliant colors fade
within the darkened depths of Lethe
and so it seems that eyes once blue
as midsummer day or sunlight on water
seem gray and shadowed
lifeless and dark -
and who, when all is said and done,
recalls the unblackened sky?
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Moments
Each gently falling grain in the glass of time
Requits a single passion -
Snowflakes falling through a winterless void of past and present
Into a sea of forgotten memories
That laps with dry and starving tongues
Against a distant rocky shore
Where the gray mist hangs with heavy heart
And colorless birds cry with the silent voices of unstrung harps.
The Wolf
The tragedy of time
Is knowing the death of tomorrow
In the wolf's teeth
Even gods fall
They cry, lost in the dark
Never mourned -
Down among the dead
It is terrible to be reminded of hope.
Under Darkness
Mourning the fall of day
In sleep lies death
Under darkness
Dusty velvet kiss of broken promises
Hateful dreams gone cold
Alone, they never knew life
Stalker
silence
---seated amidst
-- the tattered shreds
of self and soul
- rendered mute
from shattered screams
----- darkness stalking
------------ silent paws
whispered from shadows
--- where the mind creeps
--- unwatched,
-------- unwanted,
haunting dreams
-- -with the claws
-- of childhood
Fallen
whispers of darkling souls
drop down to
rest -
blight stricken wings
spread
shadows
~ falling ~
~ sullen ~
over
sleeping dreams
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