And They Call Me Legion!?

The umbilical cord

Of surreals reality....

Mercilessly attached

To this shuddered room child

Inceptions twin, of the truly unwished for!?

Choked upon its arrival, incessantly

Into this third worlds realm

Destined, for pathos brain damaged

Behind these painted red doors

Of soon to be, delivered....

Atop this crumbling winding staircase, of woe!?

Bolted, inside the walls of biles chambers

Their manical screams resounding

Throughout the blood rooted bodings

Born, afore this portentously ominous plight....

Such as Poe's, "House of Usher"

This prevailing pervading phantom, of personified!?

Reflections of a shackled and gnashed life; trapped 

Beneath the flesh of a lost souls, solleret sublime

Subliminal subjectives hypnotized, by the twenty faces of

Icosahedrons lineage....

Mangled through the vines of conceived 

The begotten of the begets, concubine of death

Benedictions decree, of deliriums deliverer of these times!?

Portents passage, profoundly embedded within countless lives

And again like Poe, "all they loved, they loved alone"....

These morbid etchings of surreals reality, mercilessly attached

To the umbilical cord of another shuddered room child

Bolted inside, the prophetically red painted confines, of biles chambers

Broken glass and gushing wounds, as they screamed, among the tombs!?

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And they call me, "Legion"....
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Freeman Avatar
July 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Congratulations John on a your awesome story. Enjoyed,mucho. Thanks for your comments today, as they are very important to me. Agape, Moses
Beesley Avatar
July 27, 2010 at 7:31 AM
i like it.it rants and raves and regurgitates some of the great and gruesome poets of old, like poe and yes i do fatally attract hideous women
R Avatar
July 24, 2010 at 4:53 AM
You seem to feel troubled lately...writing all these 'darkened poems'...Strong images..very scary, too! 'Broken glass and gushing wounds, as they screamed, among the tombs!?' Not everything is beautiful in this world, unfortunately...and it is best to capture through words all that we experience(good or bad)...Kisses, Emily
Devonshire Avatar
July 9, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Felt like I was witnessing the birth of Rosemary's Baby, John. Incredible detail and scary images. Really liked the references to Poe's work. He could have written this himself! Awesome, John! Love, Carolyn
Delacroix Avatar
July 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM
A very interesting write with striking imagery and incredible descriptions. Well done! Thanks for sharing. Caroline.
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