Such love that has imprisoned me to many hells,
Neglected nights navigate the pernicious smells…
With fiendish fury left flagitious and forsaken,
Amidst cold caves of ice the demons have awaken;
A virtuous vixen like a deceptive desired disciple,
An edacious Eve offering her appetizing apple…
I am enslaved and entombed upon loves lament,
Left to repellently rot within calamitous cement;
Relinquished ravaged ruins of my heart remain,
Parasitical palpitations penetrate pensive pain…
Derelict desertions devour the longing light,
Empty echoes decapitate within shunning sight;
Where slings and arrows cancerously conjugate,
And where stranded silent sorrows accumulate.
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June.14.2020
Thesaurus - Abandon or Abandoned
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Placed 1'st...Thank You
the soldier. the pretty city girl.
in a room of rust and patterned blood
cover
ash all in the riven air
ash of city, ash of sacrifice, ash of
soul
"I came here a soldier. You have made a monster of me."
he told her, in a voice as
cancerously black and lost as
any stygian
pit
frightened and quiet
she spread supine, naked, shaped, shaded
like gold
mortar shells screaming all around
digging holes
We have become Darwinian dwarves
Driven by our appetites
Competing for satisfaction
Where once the city of God
Reigned supreme.
Utopia is nowhere,
No more does it exist.
On the surface of a near-exhausted planet
We cling to life
Better described
As a hell on earth.
Where have we gone wrong?
We know but we dare not confess
That man is not the measure of success
But rather the architect of his own doom
Where free will has left us with no room
Nor any margin for error
But left us prey to a terror
Which cancerously leaches
What Testaments teach us.
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