with surgical conviction you took your aspirations
making damned sure to slice beneath where no scars lay to hinder
and cut away that fraction still remaining
the one last ray of hope,
now raw and bleeding, forget tender and pulsating
there is no ending, no sunny skies
so, was this all bullshit, our brief reprieve?
we breathed relief
cheap mirrors smashed this happenstance, a vestige thrown ...

truth splashes wide and quick, a flash perchance
the ugly step-sister spits,
but no one listens, no one hears
but you can see so clearly, right?
past masturbating mantras
unencumbered sighs fall flat ...

it was all a lie!
concocted on the fly in measures shared
doled out like certain crinkled shards, tart
yet sprinkled light with honey,
swelling hearts did turn
if only for a second's pause,
why drop the mask and kill this crowd
known for standing tall and proud, even gleefully?
up to our knees in crimson now,
raging free to seek its own ...

04/26/2007

Posted on 04/27/2007
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