I’m having dinner with some friends. Affectionately known as “The Dead”
Staring at their faces, glued firmly in all places.
Who do you think your foolin? Your halitosis say it all.
Exterior defying test of time. As your organs quickly die.
One more drink, and I’m leaving.
I’ve kept up appearances and the peace.
Don’t get up, I’ll see myself out.
Love and kisses to you all.
It’s been a slice of heaven.
But, Im afraid if I stay a minute longer
Your faces will begin melting, from the the candle operas warm glow
Back from the Dead.
I viewed others lives through a telescope
For far too many lost years
For I, lived in limbo
Gave up hope
Tried to climb a slippery slope
I know what darkness is
It's a place in hell
I know
Only too well.
I felt the pain of acid rain
Hundreds of tiny razorblades cutting my tender skin
I don't know what the future holds
But I know where I have been.
A single fish
In an endless ocean
Drank hemlock
And liked the poison
Laid naked in the gutter
While the scornful Ravens with hideous eyes
Beaks and claws
Tore and scavenged on my tender flesh
Every day
A fate worse than death.
I stood on the edge of the abyss
Staring at the deep inviting chasm below
Swaying backward and forwards
In the wind
Not knowing not sure which way to go.
For my heart has many festering wounds
That never seem to heal
My life is just a circle
On a perpetual spinning wheel.
But suddenly
I have awoken
I feel again
At last, I see the light
The shackles that once held me down
Now gone
At last, I have a life
Nightmare over
For I am free
To live the life I always dreamed of
And be the man
I long to be
Reborn.
Peter Dome. Copyright.2019.
Well and you left me way too soon just
like that one sad day out of the blue
I cried every minute of everyday and
every night for about a week or two 'til
I casted that forbidden spell in the
shadow of a harvest moon to bring
you back to life...
Well now and look who's back from
the dead, welcome back my love
I said standing over your grave holding
an arm full of black roses saying if you
never leave me again in a hundred
million years it will be too soon, come
away with me now my love and we will
live like two ghost's in the night...
Oh and if I should die before I wake
I expect you to bring me back from
the dead by the same spell said from
the Egyptian book of the dead, standing
over my grave with an arm full of black
roses, saying …WELCOME...
WELCOME BACK MY LOVE...
WELCOME BACK FROM THE DEAD!
Something almost tragic happened in 2010.
I came very close to losing my best friend.
She died and they revived her by taking electric paddles to her.
If she had perished, it would've been devastating to all who knew her.
When we rode on the school bus, she always gave me a seat.
She's very nice and everybody is priveleged who she meets.
I believe that God was behind her being saved and I know why.
God knows like I do that she's too nice of a person to die.
(Dedicated to Tammy Carper who nearly perished.)
As I sew up my heart
It starts..
The crises of love scorned
Its torn..
The scars on my slain wrists..
The bruises on my broken fist..
The burn of an unsuccessful rope around my neck..
I race with death only to lose by an inch..
The harder I train..
The more in vein..
The lonely pain that sleeps with fish
I wish
I wish..
The more I cry in kindness she will die
The depth of bloodless sighs
I feel closer to the sky
I guess that's the same
As every pain
I'm no different but all the same..
The race against my finish line of cocaine
I will win the race and cross the tape
That death holds for my place
....