No Recommendation

No Recommendation


Unreadable ideograms
Beaten thin leaf to tenuous holds
Of failing parchments
Brittle in their folds of tears

Remember, they struggle for survival
In clasps ever present
Reverberate continual back down 
The long lost corridors
Searching for the regurgitation of their meaning
Black and white memories
Of some sickness
Which threw off kilter 
Every next days other day of life

The heat of its brand, a whimper
Kicked on late stirrings against a pillow sleeping
Fizzog fierce of demons forming
From an ugly defining rampage torturous 

No recommendation
Other than a scar to pit against its will
Other than the pain burns continual
Of insubstantial rape
Its shame to twist and wring the neck
Till breathing burdened
Utters not 
Its last and inconsequential gasp
Released

The lump constricted full of throat
Strives to cough up on agonies point
The vendetta it holds against the past
And its freedom overburdened by desire
 
Children, screaming into silence
With a wish of blooded nails
To scrub away the indelible marks
And eaten hours
Rips against the mirror inside a heart
Cold implacable bleeds 
The warm vein of isolation
Designs its unreadable ideograms
There are no recommendations
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Goff Avatar
August 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I see a story of life that is searingly true! nice! Colin!! jimbo
Brown Avatar
August 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Good evening Colin. I enjoyed reading your poetry today. Thank you. Love, Carol
Kendrick Avatar
August 4, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Interesting writing. Keep writing. Sara
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