Tearborne


Imperial heiress waving the dry handkerchief,
how flows your infectious desires ... 
spreading oh so much malignant sawdust grief

Holding darkly the pestilent flame
closely to the pox-tinted looking glass
Scorch thy self-acclaimed name
into the pantheon sky of kingdoms past

See thy haughty visage
lunar bathing in a global sea of misery
Bane ebb a crescent smile
to those lip drowning in blind naïvete

Ere watch as evaporated hope
ascend into the void
Weak-hearted souls can’t cope,
tainted air carries
that woebegone noise

Flagging trust died
when plague stricken eyes
were tearborne

Doused immunity cried
when vaunted shoreline pride
heard the dirge horn
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Faulkner Avatar
April 6, 2020 at 1:48 PM
Simply breath taking, Freddie - the haughty indifference of the wealthy and powerful will infect us all-
Michael Avatar
March 22, 2020 at 9:10 AM
Your art amazes me...words and expressions of living poetry...
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