Pain

Loves Departure

Your sword, ancient and rusty
            is withdrawn from my body
                   to reveal a river of blood & chaos
                          amid a world
                                 of torture of my own making

Last breath
          the finale
                 no inward breath
                       - the beginning of lifes eternal promise

The minds black box
          images interfused
                 faces of aeons gaze
                        back at each other in reconsiliation

And my love has gone
         for he is running towards illusions
               that laugh
                      into the
                             liquid night sky

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The Disenchanted

She drank perfume on the river bank
and floated on lillie pads
like a frog sitting in a noon sun

Nectar dripped from the tongues of Nymphs
as they sat watching, delighting in her pleasure

For what more can she want
but memory & repose
& lifes magestic escape
the road for the weak and weary

With greyness descending
& Autumns wilting change
running amock with lifes descises
she runs in shock at what she has become
a corpse
laughing at her shadow
as it's reborn unto the never ending rain
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Pearl

A shell has fallen
         and encased my heart
                     like a pearl
                              trapped
                                    at high tide
                                            bashing against a salty wall