The Unhinging

My brain is exploding

Then imploding inside

And while it all happens

I'm wishing you'd died

But you're stubborn, and rude;

Your soul just won't quit

So I suffer in silence

Like a giant nit-wit

My senses have dulled

But my mind's in a panic

I can't think or see straight

My face - twisted and manic

I need to get gone

I need to be free

But freedom from you

Would just be misery

So I resign to my fate

I resign to this pain

I've made this my home

And in my home I'll remain

The Hollow

I looked into her face

And saw but a hollowed space

Where the dark hid the light

And only emptiness could be traced

She looked back up at me

And said she could not see

For a darkness had descended

Leaving her in misery

So I grasped her outstretched hand

And we traced sigils in the sand

To chase the darkness from her mind

And free her from its command

Twisted

The trees stood twisted...

insidious and turning...

They hid away unlisted...

achlamydeous and burning...

My mouth went ballistic...

perfidious and churling...

My heart could not resist it...

invidious and whirling...

My brain spoke Desist it!

fastidious and sterling

The Hidden Temple

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There was a hidden temple

Hiding in the woods

It was bereft of people

And all their worldly goods

It was an eerie place -

Even the winds stood still

And rocks spoke in ancient whispers

Of when things first went ill....

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Linger

I linger in the Darkness

where all the Light is lost.

I wallow in my Madness

with all my lonesome thoughts.

I hum to myself

of better, brighter days,

But the Darkness sings to me

to keep the Light away.

So now the Nighttime is my passion;

It's where my words are found.

The Nighttime is my companion;

By the Darkness we are bound.

Frazzled Prattle

Through ill-begotten paths

We travel

With spinning minds

Soon unraveled

Yet our hearts decipher

Through the babble

Of neglected feet

Pounding gravel

That no matter what

We grapple

Only together we

May handle

Then all of life's

Torments tackle

And one day

No longer baffle

That our problems

Were truly facile

A Question of Contentment

Slovenly sludging

And trudging with you

Begrudgingly grumbling

All that we do

Is this all there is?

Is this all we've got?

We thought we'd travel the world

And really learn what we'd taught

But we can't even mend

Our querulous ways

So we'll die in our beds

Our rotting minds in a haze

In the Shadows...

And into the shadows

I'll run and hide

Destined always

To have none by my side

 

And there in the shadows

I'll sit and wait

And draw lines in the dirt

Narrow and straight

 

And immersed in the shadows

Those straight narrow lines

Will jump up and take form

And dance to my rhymes

 

And there in the shadows

We'll live together, alone

Swaying in the dark

To rhymes we intone