I alone await patient dawn
watching lightmold creep on my corpse of a lawn
war of roses,
feudal flowers fruitless.
Futile was my prowress to harvest your love,
useless.
Dovestungdead, that's the sacrifice,
a martyr to your lungs, the metronome of midnight.
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Morning tolls, buses roll
luminous lamps for the 9to5 droll
the sky grows heavy
with rain
the thunderous applause of God's pain
like Jerusalem, awaiting their beacon's grave.
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Here's where the ligh touches earth,
the honest heart wreathed,
ornamenting a doorway of grief and hurt
and the flashflood creak of a keyhole's stream,
momentary divinity as the third eye bleeds.
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Do you feel this?
Houston, we have a problem,
you angel-wings grew dull mid blossom
drunk on gravity, a heavy toxin
Venus fly-trap a Sirius coffin;
"So much dead space between me and stardom."
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So many steps laced with ruts forgotten.
So many ancestral blooms stem rotten fruits
my pallet leads this canvas to a place of balance, my loom
weaves a sonic womb for these ancient tunes
spillin like smoke out my hotel room;
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an anvil bedrest
I beat my head on
Haesphestus - crippled asphestos saint,
sing songs of the pallisades, mantra lullaby
rebirth this truth through charades.
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The nouminous made luminous staves
to pave deliverence's way;
while numerals are chained to shave entropy,
shadow shallow graves with a mask of harmony,
I count your breaths like days, stalking me.
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It's been a lifetime!
wrapped in these sheets
suffering the heat
of these fevered dreams
gifted to me
by your graciousness.
Hyperventilation's cyst
leaves me dead
vein chutes shot with chalk
marking marble blocks and a tree of led
cardinal sign defined and arrested
cardiac cut, vital signs bested
cancerous lust spreads untested;
beheaded then mended to fend the x-tender rays
of light you'd severed, every staire waves it's way
to an attic's glare, lonely and bare
I contemplate the grace of your fair
skin, the origin
of beat love and madness, the heart of sin
and all things flaring,
spark plugged,
beginning to end.
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But then...
what's left?
there's you
and your silhouette
mocking daybreak's
revelation of bloody bed blues.
