Praying mantis smiles at me
when she crushes open
Wings of time, and neon rainbows
open skies, it is for Life, She cries
Murmering "murder" singing dark
mantras of Love , woven around
Her deep undying heart
Luscious tones awaken
Her serpentine tongue slithering
From bone, to bone, sliding
across the spinal chord
I am Her prey
Questionnaire of blankness
Before entering this world we transform our soul
The gramophone plays songs
of mutilated destination
midwife of Death hatched her eggs
Breeding a dark Questionairy of blankness
Lament to Humanity where art thou?
Does the corset suit you?
Can it show the shape of Love?
Do you read your own obituaries
remembering the scent you bore?
Have you ever been a child?
Remember the Sun
bears stigma of starlight
This wallpaper is dying
never having seen the sun
light crucifies all dark
This life has stained my ears
stolen my sight from seeing
I am a house without a heart
Beyond all sins
Dark red rivers I swim
for sanity is knocking at my door
From these pores, I seek
A truth that now has spoken
Etched in the gallop of stolen time
In the garden of discontent
The lilies have withered
stigma of scent
Falls upon me
You are a book of skin
You are a book of history
Sometimes I thought I could read you
When I skipped a page etched too deeply
In the echo of your memory
I spoke , once too often
I spoke, once too late
I am a book of skin
I am a book of history
Now read me not
No more...
Clouds soar electric as light strikes a silent earth,
Raindrops falling with gravitational command.
Through tear stained windows, the meadows prepare a second birth,
The storm's overbearing continuing to expand.
Trillions by trillions the drops become oceans,
Replacing with stillness where there was once commotion.
The drowning prairies stare at a gray-scaled horizon,
Looking through the dismal at the god Poseidon.
An insideous world's screams are muffled as water becomes a liquid skyscraper.
Muting the powerful roar of the vox populi.
A skyline of lies is shredded like moistened sandpaper,
A horizon of guilt becomes antalkali.
Blood becomes scab, scab becomes scar,
Ruins whispering stories of infinite war.
Rains fall with sorrow as the cities disappear,
Ridding the world of sadness and incalculable fear.
All Hail Walpurgis
Gibbous moon conceals its face
behind a ragged cloud
distant thunder echos through the vale
chanted words warp time and space
beyond what is allowed
and sacrificial blood flows without fail
gnarled hands clutch an ancient book
bound in human skin
written by a sorcerer long dead
and ageless eyes reveal a look
more horrible than sin
as the altar stone is bathed in red
chanting done and spell complete
the witch then steals away
swallowed by the all-concealing night
and what was conjured so discrete
proceeds without delay
to feast upon the leavings with delight
C. Lon R. Bruso
F!n
“ * Kiss my eyes and lay me * to sleep, with three strikes * “
I realize I must say F!n, cause my life line is very thin
Although I must hint to what I’ve learned
Things aren’t that fair, but bare it and grin
Things that you love, they can be burned
I’ll say L!fe, it’s a bitch and nothing’s free
Nothing’s fair, not for you or me
But just hold your breath and count
1, 2, 3, but yet nothing can amount
The pain, the sadness, and the darkness
The loss of something very special
To lose your very soul, and become less
Hold on and to ‘Fight’, is very crucial
Let go of the fear of death
Let it go, like a long held breath
People chose to be guided by it
I say don’t listen to that shit!
Don’t pray or even get down on your knees
Don’t believe or even say “Please!”
Make your own spark, your own flame
And when you do, nothing will be the same
I had a good time while I was blind
You must have used my body, my mind
If it’s all a lie, why did you say “Good Bye”?
I’m about to!-oh me…oh my
Forgive me, to those I love
Maybe I’ll find a new dove
But it’s too late, the damage is done
But also know there will be only one
So forgive me everyone, for I’m about to sin
Because of you…I must say-F!n
“No one will EVER be like me, but I’m sure there’s an angel out there”