Darkness is a mistress dressed in deep purples, blues and black, Thickened with fog, her cloak is tainted with the blood of innocents. She robs them of their voices as safety has surrendered all, To her steel, cold claws that cut and tear away all sense of self, Virtue and compassion now exist in the … Continue reading Twisted Shelter
Category: dysfunction
Merry-Go-Round
On a merry-go-round of perception on a tall prancing, painted horse, Shifting patterns of movement and thoughts are fleeting swiftly by, Recesses of memories, flying by with odd faces, I try to stay the course. Tightening my grip on leather straps, I can remember those days gone by, A small, speedy heart is pumping, as … Continue reading Merry-Go-Round
The Military Man – My Father
Lost for wise and fair words as I struggle sadly trying hard to understand, This five-foot-four, striking, but mostly drunk this lonely military man. Before his sixteenth birthday, he took off to the horrid deadly Korean war, Crippled was this young soldier inside and out as the memories still tore. Dad, would pick up the … Continue reading The Military Man – My Father
Warriors Still Bleed
I call myself a warrior not because I am incredibly brave, but because I still exist. That doesn't mean that a wishing well of sorrow doesn't persist. One so deep that the sound of the stone dropped therein never leaves a sound. Bottomless, these waves of heartbreak come unexpectedly and without warning. They wash over … Continue reading Warriors Still Bleed
My Forgiven Mistake
Eyes that once dreamed, now clouded by my twenty-year sentence, Walls so tightened, my viscera was slowly squeezed with foulness out, My skin weakened, but still supported by my falsely displayed armor. Void of all emotion, passion, or even a hint of a jagged seam united, As expected, a lifeless form, shuffled forward as foreseen … Continue reading My Forgiven Mistake
My Wrath
Lips pucker and brows wrinkle as he stares.Anger burrows in deep erasing his kind features.Borne is this unsummoned yet familiar creature,From the inferno of my own unrestrained wrath.Stinging remarks racing from my impertinent gateway,Chilling his heart and granting birth to my sin and guilt. by Joni 6/19
No Real Danger
Panic seizes me like a panther stalks its prey for the kill, Unbiased to the weakness it seeks in the frailness, Of the wavering, unstable victim, as it waits, acutely surveying, Then moving silently, a short rush, a bite to the neck and it's quelled! Like a dark shadow in an alley, poorly lit with … Continue reading No Real Danger
It’s Me, The Clown
If you’re a child of an alcoholic, do not be quiet,don’t accept the blame, shame and don’t be silent. Yell out to your friends, and tell the world around,If your one of the three personalities, I’d be the clown! Read, share yourself, don’t suffer alone in some dark place,It’s not your disease or dysfunction, and … Continue reading It’s Me, The Clown
Earth Day Past
Larger, bigger, better, for we must have it all, now, don’t you see,Forget about the love surrounding the wise old grand oak tree,There will always be another, whose sad cries for us to silence,By the axes and the saws which inflict their deadly dose of violence. Dead now are the deer, beside of the old, … Continue reading Earth Day Past
A Lonely Child
Floating fools with blackened brows of dreaded fear,As cubes of wax block out the words they do not hear, Pupils shattered cut with glasses from a broken show,Vision gone, lights always out, she wonders where to go. Yellow nose of pollination we wonder, why, do you make,Beauty for a thousand kings but nothing for our … Continue reading A Lonely Child
