Selfish Demise
It's a telltale sign of hell's punishment
Hear it in the wind, the fool's lament
The storm is taking its lasting form
Slowly the highest heavens are thorn
Thunder roaring like proudest lion
Barely a man in disguise of buffoon
He stands with dignity at the front of the line
A mantra endless, repeating to self: It's all fine
But on this night ominous, things are different
A black knight rides his horse, eyes deferent
Refusing to meet the scarlet starlit sea
Meeting his doppelganger over cup of tea
Tonight, a murder takes place
Slicing your veins with a lace
Made of unchanging eternity
Dying in all beautiful placidity
The mirror shatters, bleeding feelings unspoken
By trepidation, anxiety, agitation overtaken!
Revealing the unpleasant reality publicly
As what is life runs down on the ground freely
The glass pulsing with ungodly desires
A massacre caused by your crimson ires
Murderer and victim one and the same
You and your inner-demons never tame
The rain and the storm are inside your soul
The ice of time, that wind blowing so cold
It is all within your flesh and bones
As you forgot the colors and tones
Of this world quite miserly
You've made for yourself meekly
In the end, all I can say my young friend
Is that unsurprisingly you appear to be fiend
That is why, I must say it immediately
Loudly, without even the slightest subtlety
Your hands are covered in your own blood
Your visage twisted by your own wounds
You are your own selfish demise
Copyright © Dominique Lepage | Year Posted 2007
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