Monday, January 17, 2011

POETIC inJUSTICE: "Soundly Awake"

I can feel them.
Those eyes.
Her eyes.
Piercing me.
Piercing me from behind as I walk through life accomplishing what she could not.
She's envious.
She's angry.
She deserves every waking hour of observation through my bedroom window.
I can tell when she's been around.
I wake in a cold, yet satisfying sweat breathing the same air as he, and sharing the same dreams.
In fact, it's all very satisfying.
It's satisfying carrying a victory on my shoulders.
I ride triumphantly through her world, and never miss a beat.
No one ever mourned her.
The thought makes me grin.
Each night before drifting into dreamland, I recollect.
I recollect her smell.
Her taste.
Her screams as they accelerated, only to decelerate with every thrash to her pretty little blond head.
No one suspects.
He doesn't even know.
But I know, and I'm okay.
I had to take her life away before she took mine.
Now, she stands at the foot of my bed at night...
weeping...
plotting...
haunting...
but I've never slept sounder.

Monday, January 3, 2011

POETIC inJUSTICE: "I Don't Want to Burn"

I don't want to burn.
I don't want to die.
How fair is it to roam through life questioning "why?"
Who cares what science says!
Show me why the sky is blue.
Show me what it takes to fly.
Show me, because I cannot feel without my eyes.
Blessed be thy name?
What makes yours better than mine?
I have my criteria and that doesn't qualify you as being divine.
Without you I don't lack being a moral individual.
Hell, without you I don't lack very much.
"Praise you, oh lord..." and such...and such.
I have many questions, yet where are my answers?
"Seek him and ye shall find!"
As I walk among others, the blind is leading the blind.
I am an animal.
I am fueled by all my senses can afford.
Sex and lust and anger galore.
Rage and passion and so very much more.
For a fact, I will lay my head to rest one evening only to not wake in the morn.
As for those who love me,
some will find solace while others will forever be torn.
I, on the other hand, shall wander aimlessly searching for more.
Searching for what?
Life?
What about life?
Purpose?
Dignity?
Praise and recognition?
That shit's for the birds.
But, if you are the only way, the only answer,
the only antidote,
please be my friend, because I don't want to burn.