The demand in me will take control;
This prostrating power.
Builds stealthily, then surpasses me;
Intent of secrecy.
Feels like blood rage, burns like my gin days.
Only smoke, I'm not blind.
Hear the crackle, the adamant hiss;
Rattling the eardrums.
This quill will slay you, tear out your truth;
Bleed me till I'm dry.
But this here, this is maniacal;
More savage is the need.
(I write so I won't kill you.)
From down below, would they look up?
received only with contempt.
From the onslaught of blow after blow;
Debasements strike lingers.
Let them lay upon the blizzard stones;
Winter is more cruel each year.
Wake them up choking before sunrise;
The toxic yokes of shame.
Vile yank up from throat, expelled through mouth;
Daily exorcism.
(I write so you don't have to.)
With callused hands and grime beneath the nails;
Deaths eye's, cold and vacant.
All reflection has no resemblance;
Forgotten anima.
All that was precious, once held so dear;
Values, love. truth, all pursuit.
So insignificant and careless;
a matchbook or a sock.
(I write so I don't kill you.)
The comfort rots us inside out;
No vanity found here.
A secret unforseen, my scars shed;
A reptilian me.
Open the cage to bestial wails;
Tis' only just begun.
That sweet music is a symphony here;
The dregs of remembrance.
The prodding of all I have endured;
Kindles all I've witnessed.
Did you hear the click, clank of the latch?
See my steel, smell her smoke?
Blood runs cold yet wild is our fire;
We ravage your refuge.
(I write so you don't have to.)
My brethren the lost ones;
We fallen seraphim.
The rage of the downtrodden now rise;
Flank us in formation.
Bareback and bare-chested, bolts from core;
Mute scream for love unborn.
(We ride so you don't have to.)
Mary Catherine, Cowardice Queen.
