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Moonstones in Artless Skies

It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while superficial tongues 
recite infected mantras,
praising slaves of Satan~
singing corpse lullabies. 

And I can feel 
my drained soul 
descending 
  into darkness,
as this cathartic 
sanctuary 
    slowly decays,
into odds and ends 
of incessant numbness.

Spikes drive through 
this splintered ribcage,
shackling my life force,
to silently bleed 
       in salvation.

I feel the scorching 
iron ore entering 
my splitting heart,
as they watch
the crimson flow,
mocking my
doomed empathy. 
For kindness 
is disregarded, 
in a cynical world 
that has no mercy,
falling into an 
abyss of tears, 
awaiting eternal sleep,
never to rise to 
another devil’s trance,
whilst bleeding in 
reckless reckoning. 

I am the mistreated 
mistress in misery,
stranded in the
midst of an 
abandoned island~
cruising through 
  roaring waves,
in desperate hope 
     for butterfly bliss.

I trace
deadly deeds 
in bloodstained 
 sea-castles,
pleading the lord, 
to tether 
the cold walls,
that hide all these 
layers of brokenness.

Carvings of 
chaos on my skin,
choreograph a 
prodigious dance 
of death,
commemorating 
creased calm, 
with prophetic 
songs that
have no life.
For the coldest 
breeze still
lingers in circles,
from the pits of 
an out-burnt mountain,
reluctant to rearrange 
dried up poison,
with their cape 
  of sentiments,
       in cold refrains 
             and resentment.

Yet I question the 
        cosmic Peridots
scattered between 
     moonstones in 
artless skies.
     How can a poet
make the dead
seem beautiful again,
when musty maggots
     are the only 
fillings they would get?

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