Sound slowly returning
Caressing the pierced drums
Overcoming the crust of oblivion
The pleads for silence
The vast oceaned ice of a prison
Echoes of lives lost
Lives found
Lives forgotten.
The lament of agony rises above the battlefield
Crying becomes futile
Insignificant
Frail, like a mind locked behind bars one day too many.
Terror-bearing
Slow-approaching
Crunching footsteps at the brim of consciousness
Fear rises the heart drums into a crescendo
Strings rise for the puppet to dance.
Buzzing sounds
Like nightmarish insects
Approach from the East
Their flapping wings resemble machines pumping blood in decaying monuments
Of a forever failing system.
Open your eyes, you fool.
Pain enters the dancefloor
Shoes of black leather glide across the shattered spine
Tap tap upon vertebra that barely hold together
Like a child’s hands upon their mother as she drowns
Off a boat
Somewhere
The waves that submerged her
Sickly music to his ears.
Grey cord gleams under the overhead lights
Stitches snap the wounds open
Blood trickles out
Rivers of red carnations painted on alabaster
Blooming like volcanic explosions everywhere
No warning.
Smoke
Cold, like the breath emanating from an open grave
Pinches the skin
Travels to the eyes
Futile attempt to pry them open.
Death’s jaws snarl a smile
Seductive and void of what light stems from
Teeth pierce the flesh with pleasure’s moans
Feeding upon remnants of courage…
Open your eyes!
Copper covers the tongue
The ferryman’s price
Acheron’s exact ticket for Styx river
Yet this boat shall never reach Ithaca.
Aconite tears decorate the dust-covered face
Spider webs block the eyelids
Splinters of memories float about
Before settling on a shaky ground
A croak instead of a voice
Hits the mouldy cave walls
Returning to lash the broken doll
Once
It was a human
Dreams coloured the nights
Laughter sang from the lush lips
Now pieced and bruised
From smashed canines
Once it was a human
No more…
Yet…
Open your eyes, you fool!
The fight is not over!
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