Arrival

Darkness

floods

cold

burning

laying on the floor

staring

eyes sightless

horror induced fear

glistening tracks of liquid

trail to the floor

a pathway to pain

can escape no more.

Demons

peep

behind nightmares

drool laced venom

acid deep

scoring the soul

vacuous grins

crawling towards

whimpers

screw eyes closed

go away…..

go away…..

go away!

Yea

though I walk through…..

valley of sin

wade through corruption

hands out

sacrifice

wash away

the stench

embedded

nailed to the cross

helpless

whilst at the base

fires roar

imps do dance

arrive in hell

there is no going back.

©April 28/20

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Lock and Key

****9 Days****

Blackened hearth

ashes cold

no warmth found

a loss of self

a loss of innocence

tears track through soot

silence round

staring endlessly into the darkness.

Morbid thoughts

death

destruction

voice raw from shattered screams

gasping air

unable to stop

convulsing as the ugly truth

rears its bloody head.

Alcohol

consumed in copious amounts

dims the light within

allows for wraith like movement

through my own life.

Grey ghosts gather

dancing around my bed

an exorcism

no longer effective

I am lost within.

Broken

death looking on

time has come to change

to embrace this self

amalgamate it to the new

creating a better me.

As time grows close

my festive nature

a joy to perceive

my demons battled

sedated

locked within a chest

for which I have the only key.

©Dec. 14/19

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