Before the fire
I feel no #warmth
Hearth gone cold
A phantom flame
With crack & hiss
It speaks my name
An empty echo
In the night
Bereft, I am
Of sound & sight
My will is sapped
I cannot bend
Is this, in loneliness
The end?
Shall I be granted
Sweet respite
#vss365
This is my last will
This is my testament
Wrote too many chapters
To want to write
The rest of it
So lay me draped
In linen vestments
'Cause I'm tired of investing
In investments
Tired of hearing
Empty sentiments
#Precious little time
Might as well
The best of it
#vss365
#Harmony
'Tween head & heart
Split in twain
Was all in vain
This broken brain
All jigsaw shards
Naught to see
Pay no regards
Play house of cards
A Joker's deck
Heedless of
The call & beck
In all the dreck
The pieces tossed
And all that's left
...Is lost
#vss365
Spoken version of yesterday's #poem:
🙏🖤🖤
Down the lonely
Wending ways
Dark down here
No light for days
I'm marked, I fear
The path, it strays
Deeper still
Intent to kill
Hellbent, It's will
I know it not
& What I knew
Was soon forget
Regret & rot
& Here I stays
Lost within
These wending ways
#poem #poetry
I have 3 of them, BR. There's a link to my Amazon page on my pinned post. 🖤🖤
I thought I caught
#Lightning in a bottle
But it was just
Static
You know the game
5 seconds of fame
Warhol before the fall
Ephemeral
Maybe even venereal
Pass it on
To the next
Flash in the pan
The last mark
An epithet
Funereal
#vss365
All men should be celebrating women - not just our partners, mothers, daughters and sisters - all women. Every day.
We...I...fail at this often. Each and every one of you should be valued and loved and appreciated.
We need to do better.
I need to do better.🖤
#HappyWomensDay
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Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #obsessed
From the womb
To the tomb
We break bread
& Play dead
Suffocating
On our own screams
#Obsessed
& Depressed
Feelings repressed
Our hands
'Round the throat
Of our dreams
And wondering
What it all means
#vss365
Mow us down
Bullets flying
With #velocity
No mercy killing
To be dealt
With reciprocity
No answers
Mute in the face
Of this hypocrisy
Pompicity
& Barren of
Generosity
#vss365
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Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #orbital:
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🙏🖤🖤
The Earth, the Sun, the Moon
Were one
#Orbital in their ways
In birth, were spun, too soon
Were done
Deplorable end of days
And now we die
Goodbye blue sky
The curtain drawn once more
Oh how we cry
No wings to fly
And nothing was it all for
#vss365
Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #stellar:
♥️♥️♥️
Off we go
Into the night
A #stellar sight
My bones are worn
Eyes are gaunt
& Soul is torn
I seek an end
Goodbye to light
Too long, this fight
In fleshy form
A puppet borne
By mind & might
I bid farewell
No need to mourn
Now off I go
Into the night
#vss365
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🙏🖤
powder burns from the double-ought buckshot that had torn up his midsection mixed with the crimson ruin of flesh, leaving it a gory mess.
He'd take a long time to die...he'd suffer.
He was going make sure of that.
#vss365
3/3
her delighted laughter and open, innocent eyes finding a soft spot inside of him he'd not known before.
And hadn't since.
She was gone now, taken by the man who lay curled up on the ground before him, bleeding & crying,
2/3
The scent of hot oil & cordite wafted from the sawed-off as he bounced the barrels on his knee - much as he'd once bounced his little Janey.
With Janey, he'd made silly horse-sounds, smiling at the way her #bouncy red curls jumped in turn,
#vss365
1/3
The weight of all this - this - seems a #mountainous task.
To put one foot in front of the other blindly searching for a foothold in an unknown future, waiting for those inevitable pitfalls.
Death would ever be lighter.
But where would the fun be in that?
Let's walk.
#vss365
Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #enchanted
We danced the dream
In moonlit mist
#Enchanted glade
What was forbade
Became unmade
A heart undone
The dream it screamed
Neath midnight Sun
Tears they streamed
& hands were wrung
Til all was gone
The song now sung
In the end
When all was done
A figure left
The lonely one
#vss365
