Nightmare Lulluby

Always weary

late nights peering

at the powerlines, outside

Something heavy

causes swaying

and the flicker, of street lights

A sinking feeling

presence bleeding

through the shadows, tonight

A black eyed beast

with crooked teeth

Spoke to me,

“If you can see me,

then your dreaming.”

As it made its way, inside.

Sobriety

I drowned all my sorrows

in a whiskey bottle

It helped numb the pain

A gin and tonic

was all I wanted

like a cure for my brain

Whisked away by the bottom of a bottle

Where sorrow learned to breath

This time the toxic water

will swim down the sink.

Overworked

Always ending

never starting

feels like falling

on the verge

lost the urge

need’a push

that’s my folly

wishing death

with every breath

a living corpse

never rests

Ashira

There’s a bomb

in your head

don’t you hear the tick, tick, Tick?

It’ll blow

in due time

in the name of Adonai

like a fuse

to a pyre

getting lit, lit, Lit.

Now your soul

is on fire

this is it!

Stupid Suicide

How would you die?

on some pills?

Maybe at your bedside.

Some go by pulling on a rope.

Many more die with a neck tie.

I’d prefer a stupid suicide

and have left with a laugh

a joke between you and I.

Daemon

I want to cry

yell my heart out

die in the fall out

so much inside

it claws, to be let out

I think one day it might break out

maybe the pain will end

if I tear it out

Everyday

You are my answer for being

to speak to You, despite my having gone away

loving You, even when there’s only pain

Welcome me into your light

So I may bless my demons

Baptism by sacred water

they weigh me down, and so I drown

in faith I’ll stay, and wait

until I’m brought back to life

beneath your watchful eye