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The Puppeteers Collection

Sit and listen
to the screams of a child,
Fear the glowing green
of eyes so wild.

Burning auburn strands
that lick across the sky,
A flowing river red
slipping from her eye.

Rose fetid lips
drawn apart with pain,
Drowned by the thunder
that's singing to the rain.

Her silence is found
with one last painful kiss,
So bitter the poison
thats led her soul amiss.

Mascara mixing ash
drawn upon her face,
Human converted doll
to fill an empty space.

A collection that sits
before I, the puppeteer,
Love is what they sought
but I give only fear.

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Snow Tainted With Love and Lust

Such a beautiful face before me
as we lay trapped in silence, 
This world is growing colder
through natures clouded violence.

Whispers of ecstasy escape 
her rose frosted fetid lips,
The salty taste of lust
dripping down dim lit hips. 

As the minutes melt to hours
and the snow traps us in, 
All the warmth has gone 
besides the fire in her skin.

All the love she's been seeking
forever running in her dreams, 
Love tainted horror lust
gives her pleasured screams.

She'll worship the falling chaos
a beautiful white apocalypse, 
She burns with blood on her hands
and snow dripping off her lips....


 Oh is it my fault.... As the shadows take over..... and blood and snow begin to blend...

 I handed you 
       a knife
   and
        my heart

Should I blame you in the end?

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Omniscient Shores

The water is so tempting now
as the wind blows ashore,
All these haunting apparitions
I've dreamt them all before.

This sand has turned to ash
and the sea is now a shade of red,
An island to the north
an exiled home to the dead.

With burning feet I fall
at the mercy of all those who weep,
A constant call for resolution
and their guilt forever shall they keep.

With knees in the ocean
I beg to a god no longer there,
For I am their master now
like him, I bother not to care.

One day they shall see
the world through our eyes,
My fear is my absolution
to all their pitiful cries.

Gazing towards the sky
in the realms within our dreams,
The master of these puppets
and I control the seams.

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Scarlet Woman

A heart set on love
forever falling for lust,
Just as metal over water
time produces rust.

Lost in never ending infinity
like an ocean bearing no earth,
Incomplete and unaware
like a child never reaching birth.

Impurity is ever present
but mistakes don't determine fate,
Life is a two edged sword
one side love the other hate.

Pain embodies beauty
like a rose entangled cross,
Love of a scarlet woman
ends this war with loss.

My world is crippled
in the face of my defeat,
So beautiful, Scarlet woman
whose kiss is bittersweet.

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Realms of Royalty

Another minute in the madness
and i fear I've gone insane,
All these haunting memories
gnawing at my brain.

I see you in the distance
it seems you cannot hear,
The sorrows slowly sinking now
and I bathe in blackened fear.

Is this a house or prison
in which I've been entombed,
Strange how the sun still shines
on a world so surely doomed.

Promised life producing pain
and my angels run away,
Abandoned on this balcony
its here I shall forever stay.

Sitting in the madness
the air whispers withered dreams,
To slumber in the sadness
in this realm without a queen.

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Scarlet Cinematic

She sits in silence
with blood sliding down her fingertips,
Pain traced across her face
but a smile curls her lips.

All these lovely memories
have now crumbled all to dust,
In these fading city lights
love has bled for lust.

Never ending cinematic
playing in her head,
Of all the scarlet demons
moaning in her bed.

Lying in her blood
the pain hurts more inside,
Bladed edge may numb the pain
but emptiness is suicìde.

Silent screams into the void
but moans are only heard
Lost in all the city lights
but all the lights have blurred.

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Autumn Ashes

Tell me, does time turn us to dust
as fire fades to ashes,
Does water slide down your face
like tears kiss these glasses.

A feeling of loneliness
but I know that you are near,
I see the monster in the mirror
and love gives way to fear.

Tears of joy have turned to hate
all because of me,
Dying leaves slowly falling
off this aging tree.

Like the leaf I hit the ground
without a passing thought.
All life here has drained away
nature's lessons must be taught.

Bleeding anguish from the sky
in the form of rain,
Autumn chills kiss our scars
and soothe away the pain.

Ashes, ashes from the clouds
have turned this world to grey,
Autumn ashes in my heart
drown the love away.

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The Confusion of Infliction

I must admit dear,
evil survives within my head,
Monsters in the corner
all painted shades of red.

They walk among us
yet you'd never know they're here,
Spirits in the wind
leaving whispers in our ears.

Screams ringing in the darkness
forever leading us astray,
Replacing all our colored memories
and fading them to grey.

Laughter all around
but we are alone,
Strangers in this house
but we're without a home.

How could it be raining in this place
when the ground is made of fire?
You can blame it on us 
blame it on our desire.

A world full of broken hearts
means it's made of filthy flesh,
They have our love guarded
behind black barbed mesh.

They smile at our pain
with a twisted form of lust.
Forced into the darkness
to breathe an ancient dust.

Is this love or is it pain
that they keep inflicting?
Should I have joy
or should this be sickening?

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Her Hell

A smile fades
as the stars they realign,
An angel, dark angel
retracing a forgotten line.

She shuts her eyes
and the world dissapears,
A wounded eye opens,
to corrosive lovely fears.

Her mind begins to wonder
as the smoke rises in the air,
A single step too far
and they all begin to care.

A breath cut short
as the memory slips away,
Solitude in silence
is her lesson for today.

A smile now forgotten
As the stars they realign,
Angel, dark angel
Her hell is now mine.