Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Leave off the slave's soft cruelty

Leave off the slave's soft cruelty
The worms that eat your mind
Beware of friendly sympathy
To feelings not your kind

Ours a wretched lot, to bear
the joys of Spring, + bury them
Some would deign to take our
rotting corpses + marry them

Truth is splashing in the stream
Follow footsteps into dreams
Winding paths, terrible wrath
Nothing's what it seems

Fire burns to carbon dust
Sturdy stones in which we trust
Precious metals, clothed in rust
fail to shine, yet beckon us

       on into the Nightmare,
       Midnight's vanity
       Dawn discovers right where
       we left our sanity

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