Broken Wings!
Trapped within this cage of flesh, a sparrow
A soul, always longing to flee its confines, to soar so free
Born, tied to its walls of mephitic truths; but unwilling
These eyes that burn, until they succumb unto its pantheon
Of subsistings stitchings of reasons and thoughts....
Carnivorous' desires to cannibalize its natural foe
Within equilibriums of shiftings enthymemes entrenched
As vague becomes the light, of these eyes that grow blurry
While scratching these pervading concretes of mindlessness
With broken nails, now dripping this crimsons tale
Of a life and soul cast asunder, by the pentacles sharpened edge....
Phalanges forces as famished piranhas, feasting
Upon a skeletally growing figure, that once dreamed of a utopia
The innocence, which through time it lost....
For now it bows, while breathing its gasping and final breaths
Trapped within this cage of rotting flesh, a teardrop falls
Where the shadows servals and the vultures gather--An offering unto
These voracious advesaries, bent, upon their unquenching thirst
Of this unknowing soul....
That once longed to break its fetters, and flee these crumblings
Now buried alive, within the tombs of its sorrows....
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Broken Wings!
Copyright © John Rhinem | Year Posted 2008
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