Fear

In the woods dead of night

withered trees sucked of life

nowhere to climb, and you lost your hunting knife.

branches snap

shadows shift

it runs by, just passed your line of sight.

A mass of black, and scarlet eyes

it ate at you, from the inside.

Nature

A festival of sex and death

snake heads and spider legs

mud mixed with blood

teeth ripping flesh

Nature in its most naked form:

Born to a war of tooth and claw

our progenitor, and eliminator

programed to proliferate,

create,

and manipulate.

And now we can destroy.

Attempt

I want to bring about the profound.

I want to be the deep black ink in a storm cloud.

Stained like night before there was light.

I want to speak primordial and true.

Etch the minds of first conscious life,

A break through.

I’m obsessed with shadows and the night

because it was in the darkness,

when we first saw light.

Emotion Junkie

My dear soul

you’ve grown so bleak

when did you start bleeding ink?

I’ve hurt you so

for selfish reasons.

I tell myself

it’s to help you grow,

but now I know,

it’s to help me cope.

love or hate

fear or joy

they’re all the same.

they fill a void.

I’m addicted

to the emotions you elicit.

My dear soul

grow more bleak

so that I may weep, tears of ink.

Let This Shot be the Last

There’s something hidden deep beneath

reflecting just behind my eye

it’s sin, it’s vice, it’s a good time

its got its hooks in me

like a puppet, I let it play my strings

just one drink. . . but it never ends

its so clear to me

what I’m chasing isn’t a numbing feeling.

its not knowing if I’m still breathing.

Flame

What do you say

if we set fire to my pyre?

Will it speak of hellfire, torment, and woe?

Or will new life arise, spark’n ignite.

revitalized with new hope.

Maybe both. . .

I just want to know.

So what do you say?

After all, you’re the Flame.

Days in Trinity

Take your worst, and make it right.

Turn your hell, into divine.

There’s no rest, beyond this line.

And I’ll find you on the rise.

These words, by your side:

“I’ve died and came back to life,

now I live, undenied.”