Cages of Angels

Cages of Angels Have you hungered enough As you lay bereft of sleep The changing seconds in dead red digital light Stare you blankly into thoughts Seeping from your pours like tears Afraid to close your eyes Shutter your lids into another night And hear the loveless breathing beside you The long and mundane rigmarole of remorseless continuation Counting out those dieing wishes Those weeping hopes Seethe with vampire blood cells Feeding on every dream you ever had How can you bare to watch yourself wither The unrecognised martyrdom The unknown sacrifice Has everyone a practising pugilist Made you their target And beat you back on your own split lip Of what you think they all deserve Broken and shattered they let you fall to the vacancies of their love Have you hungered enough Behind the flimsy lace of prison bars In the cages of angels where your demons tormented you to ridicule Your loneliness you wear as a ritual mask A tribal dance behind your words A crying freedom that no one has ever heard You berate yourself against your heart And cannot see for all their lies The single solitary truth Have they ripped out my love And turned it into a debacle of mistrust Scourged my every word with dubious uncertainty And left me to wear their shadow Do you walk alone Head bent beneath the sun With the purpose of your soul hanging on the gibbet The wretched forlorn and fallen weak dragging at your footsteps Does your mouth push past the emptiness To level you Drag you through your sense of duty To fruitless searching’s for some reason Not to love me I dropped my sackcloth of inconsequential burdens long ago It fell with its bricks to the cemented dust Others would have built my dungeon with There is only one cage The cage of not having anyone to share my freedom with Have you hungered enough