Darkness Roars

How can you explain pain?
When you feel it, recognize it
And relive it again
In someone else’s eyes

A memory locked in your body
Makes your fists clench
Involuntarily in a shoddy
Meaty, tight, sweaty drench

A viscous restless energy
A snarling patch of black
Sucking up the vitality
Of anything along your track

Your darkness roars
Your evil thrashes
And devils dance
Between your lashes

Make Peace with Yourself

When her smile slowly drips
Down the front of your shirt
And the curls of her hair
Make one last whisper against your cheek
Try and see the watery glow
Inside your chest
Instead of that great abyss
And make peace with yourself

The icy daggers in your bleeding eyes
The red rivers along your arms
The soft tissue under your nails
And the ups and downs on your aching head
Avoid the void
Sidestep the filling love buffet
And complete your own tapestry
Make peace with yourself

The angry passion that rips the scream
Right out of your throat
And your face becomes twisted
In a frozen mask of agony
Thaw it slowly with the sand
Of a thousand hourglasses
Till the sigh is heaved
The dagger is sheathed
A calm breath is breathed
And you’ve made peace with yourself

Half the Man

The flower pushed through the ground
Red like Arab lips
The frog leapt through the kept turf
Green like glassy monsoon shoots
The moon glinted in the corner of his eye
Like white starlight
Three magi came to his door
Only one and a half went back
Gold and frank
Splice.
They became halves
Because his angst was such
And no one else understood.