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Once
these corridors 
echoed with life
a citadel for restoration
of body and mind
a bastion of promise
for the tormented
to the outside world
it had many names
Forest Lawn Sanitarium
was its Nome de plume

I--- simply called it--- home

In its day
it was of grand design
cathedral ceilings
hung with crystal chandeliers
finest draperies form fitted
to spacious Windows
walls brightly painted
absorbing sun lights warmth 
reflected off marble floors

yes--- it was exquisite--- so beautiful 

Soon after my arrival --- I realized
that beauty often commits--- the grossest treasons

For beneath 
these hallowed halls
there lay a world of darkness
a wilderness of living sorrow
doctors most vile

It was here--- that I came of age.

a place
where the rooms
festered in the putrid scent
of decaying dust
where the floors
where like walking 
on shattered
brittle-- shards of glass
the broken sills
of cemented widndows 
entomb the fragments
of yesterdays tormented souls

if only
the towers
could reverberate 
the echoing wails
which pierce the silence
so thick
not to chase away
no--- but to call
the slithering shadows of doom
a place where torture
became science--- and science
a medical break through

but to me--- it was still home

Where despair
screams of stone cold fear
of ghastly ghosts
imprisoned with clattering chains
of morbid madness
lurking in secret skeletons
where charcoal coffins
resurrect in the curtain
of lethal skies
bloodletting and chilling memories

Blasted shrapnel of
crimson smeared sins
of hollow skeletons
buried beneath
the godforsaken guillotine
where harrowing horrors
howl mournful cries
and demented demons
putrify on crosses
Persecuted in the bars
of their endless eternal torture

Hope you like my home--- cause
no one gets out alive

This is a collaboration which was written with the poetess Midnight petals on another poetry site. This piece was written about a year ago...
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