Saturday, August 18, 2007

A poem from my dark side


THE DARK LOVER

Night and day i search for him, day and night

I walk the streets asking beggars that i meet

"have you see him? have you seen my lover?


his face as pale as snow his eyes the abyss

painters paint him with a scythe and bony finger

not knowing he is a lightbringer


What is this place but the pit of hell?

under our feet where worms feast

on a dinner of our newly dead meat


is the soil where things grow best on a diet of corrupting flesh

around us deceptive beauty of nature forsooth

but as was said "red in claw and tooth"


the ocean with lacy edges

hiding the bones of many poor wretches

above every maternity ward the sign should be placed:

"abandon hope all ye who enter here"

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