veritus lexu mea

run from prayer
flee from sin
dizzy,
nauseous
endless
whirlwind.
your words communicate
as does air.
breathe of
sky, sea,
smile and tear.
numb are you-
save for the utterances
of meaningless disquiet
disturbing pretenses-
Settle.
as would a gifted liar-
a broken body
begging to expire.
tempting little finger
beckons
from the throes of silence
tantalizing
taunting
by choice and compliance-
Nightmarish memories imbedded
in the road to succeed
speak to you in foreign tongue
reach nowhere
and bleed-
At what price are you bought
o, wide-eyed slave?
to be frightened into giving-
what you've already gave
Freely.
and was plunged
into the cackling black mud
words that cost you
your peace
your self
your love.
what piercing pain drove you
to the coldness here
to the lonely forgotten corner
of spiritual fear?
the empty hands of fatal hope
that held out no cure
for the glorious euphoria
that seeps through your pores
Leave them all.
to the abondoned,
rotting alley
littered with the rats
and trash
of human folly.
you have aged so much
in your short
and fleeting youth
grown dumb, wise,
hard and aloof
you've plunged like Icarus
into sensation
thrived in the Chaos
of degredation-
fallen in love
with easeful Darkness
and its aching prize
a whole world that exists
in purple shadows
beneath your eyes.