Eden Burns

Black heart-
Isolation has killed me
Inspiration ripped from the womb;
ideas aborted long before their birth.
Thoughts left to decay,
displayed in jars,
hidden from the world
preserved in the frigid air
of their own abandonment.
The muses whore themselves
unclean, tantric goddesses
promising revelation
leaving filth, rank and unkind
corrupted by the age
of plagiarism and pornography.
Drowning in a smog ladden sea
where Mount Olympus once reigned supreme
High art burned with old morality;
what's left of teh world is grey.
Souls are sold, bought, traded,
all for the promise of release-
thoughts destroyed-
embryonic misconceptions
swept under the rug
hidden beside the pills and serpentine promises
Eden burns.

~Vicki Somers
February 10, 2003
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