tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11830164094850192072024-03-14T03:20:49.410+00:00Dark Gothic PoetryA collection of all my poetry from the last two years.
Your feedback is most welcome, as are links to your own works, so feel free to comment.
Enjoy!
Also- would like to thank my fans for the brilliant, supportive comments and following- let's bring poetry into the limelight again!Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-27827663746952743962012-11-05T20:13:00.004+00:002012-11-05T21:07:30.559+00:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Stabbed,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Snag
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">I
suck my purple finger, swear</span></span></div>
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Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-10680226772503943862011-05-10T20:33:00.003+01:002011-05-22T17:39:02.259+01:0030Her waxy feathers are glazed with red blood,<br />As she’s struck down- with sleek efficiency,<br />Limp and lifeless… limitless she had seemed!<br />From her throat is pulled a ghostly whisper. <br /><br />Yet more glorious than;<br />The breathless, frantic squawks,<br />The slow suffocation in darkness,<br />The bright-eyed, damp, sickly terror of temporal Hell<br /><br />Ah, the savage gleam in those black vacuums,<br />Wolf’s wicked snarling mouth not so grotesque,<br />As man, who wears an indifferent smile?<br />Its bones are groaning, its hunger dragging.<br /><br />Its weakness runs deep; it dashes and leaps-<br />Squanders fragile life,<br />Alack, over this cub no-one weeps,<br />But Human, hark at the glum trees!<br /><br /><br />© Florence Challender 2011Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-89054395951949327212011-04-20T10:20:00.006+01:002012-01-17T18:57:58.560+00:0029What spell is cast around these slumb'ring walls<br />
That the swishing snip of thicket can't break?<br />
The bravest hearts are skewered on its thorns.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">None</span> so fortuitous to reach its doors...<br />
Centurion Autumn gathers dead leaves,<br />
Brings not Spring's life-kiss or Winter's release.<br />
<br />
And who has come to wake the maiden fair?<br />
Punished by the prick of a sharp needle,<br />
So like the lethal point of the rose stalk.<br />
The deceptive faerie nature spared, whilst;<br />
Rubbled bodies tangle in its brambles<br />
And Aurora's lips grow ever colder--<br />
<br />
<br />
© Florence Challender 2011Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-61330320091699720932011-02-08T20:23:00.012+00:002012-11-05T21:19:34.491+00:0028We crash onto the ground<br />
And all is silent, except, the rustling of leaves,<br />
The disquietude in my heart. <br />
And all is sweet, except, the taste of tobacco<br />
Mingling with the cooling air.<br />
And all is calm, except, the teeming of pestilent thoughts<br />
Of your salacious smile.<br />
And all is bright, except, the rapid-darkening night<br />
as our lips lock...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Then I awake.<br />
<br />
<br />
© Florence Challender 2011Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-87179304531552839922010-10-29T10:07:00.013+01:002010-11-07T14:46:51.024+00:0027The night blossoms as it claims back its fair lady,<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">O</span></span> silent companion of mine...<br />She treads soft-clad, pawing cautiously the unfamiliar stage,<br />The pallor of the spotlight.<br /><br />The whip of a bat's wing is her orchestra,<br />The strangled call of a bird frozen in flight,<br />Warns her prey to retreat into their hollows,<br />The moon turns away with grieved countenance.<br /><br />Her eyes glow like a fire replenishing itself; the eyes of a huntress!<br />And her coat is as grey as the smoke that smothers,<br />Her body stops corpse-still,<br />But her tail so expressive, betrays her...<br /><br />Yet when morn comes she is no longer betrothed to the darkness,<br />She stretches drowsily along the windowsill and rumbles contentedly,<br />Beguiling me with glass-green eyes; not of malice or envy,<br />But a rare kind of trust, a treasured love.<br /><br /><br />© Florence Challender 2010Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-63637311998627872432010-09-16T19:36:00.007+01:002011-12-08T20:42:45.032+00:0026When, banished is the day<br />
I fall to Nocturne's cradle of unrest,<br />
a shroud of white noise befalls me.<br />
And your voice, indecipherable, although- <br />
vociferates in my head...and leaves me cold<br />
And your face, the fragility of your smile<br />
half-obscured by memories decaying into fiction. <br />
Oh! I swore I heard this voice before<br />
and beheld this face!<br />
On the wrong side of heaven,<br />
where the cruel-hearted angels are exiled to<br />
with wings of a raven which has frolicked in the snow.<br />
And your eyes like chalcedonies, flashed back at me<br />
drinking in the bitterness I thought only <span style="font-style: italic;">I</span> could see.<br />
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© Florence Challender 2010Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-22840586517689052152010-08-02T18:47:00.010+01:002011-04-27T20:59:48.802+01:0025No death bed convert shall I make,<br />The heretic soul in me would only baulk at the prospect<br />These eyes have swallowed too much truth and the twinkling of faith has long expired.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">No</span>, I shall shirk no shame of my last ill-spent moments<br />Nor shall I deplore my trespasses, <br />For my neighbours are as Godless as I.<br />I shall quell all thoughts foreboding to wander to a place “hereafter”, <br />Pray, what could it offer?<br /><br />This life’s a false promise-<br />A world where rich feasts on poor, <br />woman treads in the shadow of man,<br />And love shrivels in the hands of fate.<br /><br />No, I shall abandon him before he abandons me<br />I know I am expendable, but He?<br /><br />I shall butcher my heart and serve it up on the altar-<br />A mere returning of the favour, <br />For all the last breaths <span style="font-style:italic;">snatched</span> by his avaricious grasp.<br />I’ll beg him for his worst, for one of Gabriel’s own to smite me down with a blow that could bring the castles of heaven crashing...<br /><br />This is my exodus from a world in tatters; <br />Evil shall no more pluck the ripest fruits of Good’s labour, <br />As the lamb heart coils up with the dragons.<br /><br />© Florence Challender 2010Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-91385931576390133972010-06-09T19:31:00.012+01:002010-11-10T18:20:08.348+00:0024<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jbOngTlfe9I/TDDX3t_ZMjI/AAAAAAAAASw/FWlUL536HH8/s1600/b9a770b4b5b3ebeb05600ec30e1fcef310272468.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jbOngTlfe9I/TDDX3t_ZMjI/AAAAAAAAASw/FWlUL536HH8/s320/b9a770b4b5b3ebeb05600ec30e1fcef310272468.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490125298002899506" /></a><br />Her love is a star so fragile it may burst,<br />the feverish glow of a lantern in the deepest dungeon,<br />illuminating my heart, when all else is cursed.<br />Her light becomes weary and flickers like a butterfly,<br />I oft fear our love will dwindle into cinders and die. <br />But still the candle burns brightly,<br />drips through the night.<br />Together, we could torch the sky.<br /><br /><br />© 2010 Florence Challender<span style="font-style:italic;"></span>Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-62137282347036078252010-05-09T16:52:00.006+01:002010-08-03T19:58:42.560+01:0023Night's dark veil falls upon a couple's encounter on a glistening backstreet<br />the clatter of heels, the chime of laughter, peel off the jacket.<br />Too young and carefree, too consumed in passion to even blink<br />as Venus casts her shadow.<br />Creatures of the night awake!<br />The creeper,<br />we bid it farewell but still it returns, the ghastly blighter.<br />The cloaked one,<br />unidentifiable, slinks like a practiced predator and has hands that seize.<br />And the one that waits in slumber,<br />making neither sound nor movement<br />only sleeps and waits,<br />waits...<br />to drag them to their death bed.<br /><br />© 2010 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-5630364212999395432010-02-17T12:55:00.004+00:002010-02-23T17:32:15.726+00:0022Death in its complexity will wage war and rage<br />and whilst Eros persists, it's Thanatos who prevails<br />can't silence the skeptic that plagues the mind<br />life and its longevity stretched before my eyes.<br /><br />"The casket calls, put this demon to rest!<br />A heavy-hearted sigh heaved from my chest<br />the poison that tricks my vision, the cynic that shrieks<br />all hope remains hidden while desolation creeps.<br />My mouth is stitched shut to stop stupid words leaking<br />reduced to nothing but a willow weeping...<br />too much love carelessly discarded, too many fantasies entertained<br />I crumble into depravity and my soul is stained."<br /><br />Death whispers to me in his dulcet tones<br />of a world underground for those whose life has left their bones,<br />a place where the restless sleep. <br />His cold breath on my neck causes a shiver to slither.<br />I long to reach out in a sombre embrace<br />his icy hands relieve me of life's lingering trace,<br />I breathe in his cloth of cobwebs and he closes my eyes,<br />no longer a spectator to life's horrors and lies,<br />as he lies me down on his soil-lined bed. <br /><br />Death in its finery and splendour is all I could ask for<br />as I crush velvet between my fingertips and examine the well-polished wood.<br />So much time laid aside to honour my end, <br />for in this my eternity I shall spend. <br /><br /><br />© 2010 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-55652037310122911402010-02-17T12:53:00.005+00:002010-02-23T17:33:30.944+00:0021Tell me, if you will, if I've failed... for caring not enough?<br />A string of hearts trampled upon<br />spat words of affection with nauseous disdain,<br />such feelings surely spawn from weakness?<br />I sought gratification in flesh, in vein<br />"swill down the guilt and lament tomorrow"<br />And how soon tomorrow comes...<br /><br />I tried to resist like man delays death <br />but my bark had no bite against your raging light,<br />how you softened a heart unflinching<br />and blinded my wandering eye.<br />But to have so naively thought you felt the same<br />now it's my heart that's taken to the slaughter<br />won't you rinse me down of love's bloody shame?<br />Tell me, if you will, if I've failed... for caring far too much?<br /><br /><br />© 2010 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-58286291889101572992010-02-15T21:46:00.005+00:002010-10-29T13:47:48.035+01:00ThanksHi,<br />a collective thanks to everyone for the supportive feedback. It's been an incentive to post more seeing as they've been received well!<br />Florence, <br />xxFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-13408707814729280412009-12-21T17:02:00.014+00:002009-12-21T21:54:09.707+00:0020Oh flesh soft and tender<br />white as a winter's offering,<br />cold as the snow that hardens the Earth's crust<br />auburn strands twist, beaded with silver<br />frames a face so fair, lips paled by Frost's kiss. <br />Head adorned with a crown of thorns and curling petals,<br />eyes spill innocence, stone grey but sparkling<br />a blackened tear leaks..<br /><br />Strength in those features, alight in the flame's warm glow <br />but still the curvature of the cheeks, the body<br />handle with care.<br />The dress that clings, a heavy heart beat drumming through<br />breath catches with fear, her chest hovers<br />cotton wrinkles around her thighs, brushes her soft arms<br />her raised skin tingling with the cool night breeze,<br />you burn to touch her.<br /><br />But you must not be fooled!<br />The mouth too wide hides teeth newly constructed <br />to tear the flesh from the bone,<br />to sap life, to squander it in an instant.<br />She will beckon you and you will chance it<br />and when fresh blood trickles down her porcelain skin,<br />you will become the unsuspecting lover<br />the first skull on the pile.<br /><br />© Florence Challender 2009Florence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-26358497282361120482009-11-28T17:02:00.010+00:002010-10-03T18:17:02.397+01:0019Rumpled bedsheets, a candle sheds a tear<br />rose from lover lies on the floor, a saccharin gesture rots<br />a yellowing novel sits, its words taking seed in her mind.<br />She whimpers, a solemn sigh escapes<br />her face a canvas with a flourish of Victorian scandal<br />jet ribbons snake over every ivory curve,<br />the night resting heavy on her shoulders.<br /><br /> A silhouette pours through a crack of curtain,<br />and the dust is lifted<br />a cloaked figure is poised, sinister with a touch of elegance.<br />Misplaced, he belongs elsewhere- a graveyard or morgue<br />he arches his spine and closes in, pushes back the cloth. Revealed!<br /><br /> Pale and emaciated, what dark eyes convey...lust, thirst, hunger<br />pearly blades, blood stained- a chance mutation?<br />draws back his coarse, blue lips. <br />Starved of love after a lifetime of death,<br />his heart lies in a gutter and drips. <br /><br /> Her eyelids snap and bones tighten<br />but still sparks of excitement fly,<br />he beckons her with dexterous fingers which dance along the cotton<br />and lace.<br /><br /> She pushes air from her chest and turns her head,<br />too inviting as her neck is pressed.<br />"Close my eyes to the true ugliness of mine life!" she cries<br />he penetrates the exterior and dark red leeches from dark red holes<br />she sighs at the pleasure as she's maimed,<br />age old and Medieval, thought to cure a victim's pain.<br />She drinks bad blood, black and viscous...<br /><br /> The infection seeps in, an ancient sickness spreads<br />tearing nerves like silk thread, rewiring, changing the imprint<br />and starting anew.<br />Her heart sinks, defeated.<br /><br /> Burning cravings spawn from a diseased soul<br />a desire to drink, she licks her lips lustily.<br />"The living are like clockwork, too mechanical, too human" she thinks<br />"Now it's the dead's time to reign".<br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-11642294916083316982009-10-09T19:49:00.005+01:002012-01-17T19:06:53.552+00:0018Do you remember when we first met?<br />
A brief encounter, barely an exchanged glance beforehand<br />
I can remember the bite in the air, that familiar stench<br />
I wasn't looking my best, but then, neither were you,<br />
Hung up on nicotine cravings and sleepless nights<br />
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I don't know what possessed me, pride or fear?<br />
My heart sank like my feet<br />
I'm sorry.<br />
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Decades passed and I still can't rinse away the shame<br />
It stays locked in the drawer,<br />
The one with the strong whisky and dusty sepia photgraphs.<br />
My mind plays it over and over, like an old reel of film<br />
flickering behind my eyes.<br />
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I will not hesitate, as we sit back to back so my eyes do not <br />
meet with your stony expression.<br />
I am about to meet a fate less heroic than yours<br />
I am deteriorating fast,<br />
Each breath is becoming more laboured<br />
Years on the pipe to ease my nerves<br />
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I want to sit a while, absorb the view<br />
Perhaps my last chance before I am clamouring on Hell's door.<br />
Do you remember when we first met?<br />
Because I remember it like yesterday<br />
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© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-3083350573932199772009-07-25T10:17:00.007+01:002010-09-02T14:32:28.322+01:0017 (Acedia)Sloth's stranglehold<br />depression,<br />a curse and a crutch.<br />It is a vision of life through a mud speckled monocle.<br />Pandora's box unveiled. <br />Dark-winged parasites take refuge in my head<br />but to stimulate my apathy,<br />is to place me in the ground. <br />Inside my monster, robbed of its soul<br />lies a sleeping clown. <br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-55077144390935713962009-07-25T10:13:00.006+01:002010-02-28T17:52:53.294+00:0016Your love, you said<br />was fatal<br />it engulfed its recipients,<br />sucked them in. <br />Your passion, you said<br />was furious<br />a tempest,<br />with static electric fingertips.<br />Your lust, you said<br />was intoxicating<br />the dependable trickster<br />left them in ruins.<br />My lust, I said<br />was bottle bred<br />my passion, I said<br />was momentary.<br />But my love, I said<br />was you <br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-13940666910712128042009-06-08T22:12:00.008+01:002010-09-01T16:23:02.051+01:0015Instinctively my fingers are outstretched,<br />poised to touch the rosiest apple<br />to tear the fruit from the loom<br />to feed my appetite for curiosity.<br />I take,<br />I eat.<br />It's flesh is bittersweet<br />it's bite tastes of my decay<br />the liquor of knowledge, a thorough depressant<br />trickles from my tainted lips.<br />My sin falls from my hand<br />and lies on Eden's jewelled floor<br />Oh I am awash with gluttonous guilt<br />stolen innocence,<br />now I am living on borrowed evil.<br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-74509927009758318382009-05-27T19:18:00.015+01:002009-05-30T13:38:54.220+01:0014Tearing off the flesh to find,<br />a hidden beauty lurks inside.<br />Finding peace in my natural state<br />won't let my skeleton go to waste. <br />Your laws of beauty cost their lives<br />reason dies but aesthetics survive.<br />You call it fashion I call it crime<br />if this looks good,<br />then the world is blind.<br />How many tears to wash away<br />the stains I wear from yesterday? <br />I hunger after one throbbing desire <br />a phantom body draped in attire. <br />Your laws of beauty cost their lives,<br />reason dies but aesthetics survive<br />How many days 'til you erase<br />the very bodies<br />that shot them to fame? <br /> <br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-56044372582559173632009-05-03T16:49:00.003+01:002009-05-03T16:58:34.628+01:0013Crimson is seeping into her cheeks,<br />her crown of flames licks at her face.<br />She watches the siren, she aches "How she<br />speaks with such ease, how men fall at her feet<br />her moves are hypnotic, but her smile speaks of sin<br />and he's mine!"<br />Her topaz eyes flicker, dissolve into lime<br />she can taste the bitterness in her words<br />as she contemplates the crime<br />she can feel the hot, red rapids hurtling through her veins<br />R-A-G-E<br />Choking on her eagerness to spit her acidic words<br />reeling as her nerves are racked, her spine shakes<br />H-A-T-E<br />Her predatory string goes with a snap, "How I<br />slink with such ease, how prey fall at my feet<br />my eyes are hypnotic, my lips tingle with sin<br />and he's mine!"<br />She marks Cupid's demise as the arrow strikes<br />with a skillful slice through the air,<br />to lacerate the flesh of the unsuspecting target<br />and bring her to a sanguine end<br />D-E-A-T-H<br />As the room fills with hushed words of the carmine<br />spillage,<br />she looks at the lifeless corpse<br />and a single blistering tear falls from her eye<br />R-E-G-R-E-T<br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-55948034799843855062009-05-03T16:34:00.007+01:002010-07-04T19:51:03.462+01:0012<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jbOngTlfe9I/TDDWdapl61I/AAAAAAAAASg/ItJhBkJai5s/s1600/t354799775_17970_6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 86px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jbOngTlfe9I/TDDWdapl61I/AAAAAAAAASg/ItJhBkJai5s/s320/t354799775_17970_6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490123746622958418" /></a><br />Sunlight dances on her ivory skin,<br />so smooth and cool to the touch<br />hair so thick and wavy,<br />a crown in all its glory.<br />Eyes so perfectly shaped<br />the gleam that never leaves them,<br />a body weaving in and out<br />one he can truly hold onto.<br />Limbs so long, <br />lips so strong<br />pursed, they ache to sing.<br />Features sculpted without fault<br />beauty immune to fading<br />grace which withstands <br />the gusts that glide over<br />the gold crested leaves.<br />She's an angel,<br />he can see her outstretched wings<br />stood beneath the shedding trees.<br />"It's such a shame," he thinks,<br />"that I fell in love with one<br />which cannot fall as well."<br /><br />How she longs to reach out,<br />crack the case that is her grave<br />embrace the lust which calls from her<br />rusty vessels,<br />and feel a fire that knows no bounds.<br />Lull him with soothing words,<br />which will tumble from the carved mouth<br />that teases her.<br />Stroke the auburn hair which bounces<br />so freely,<br />gaze into the emerald eyes which shine<br />so readily,<br />and touch the flesh that wears the scars<br />of life.<br />"Alas!" she cries,<br />"what is my beauty if it <br />can't win me a man?<br />I'm locked in a mere existence,<br />a standstill stance."<br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183016409485019207.post-62438888010488555972009-05-03T16:24:00.004+01:002009-05-03T16:34:06.124+01:0011Each pair of apathetic eyes is a slash to the soul,<br />nothing stirs inside these stone hearted statues<br />but another hit and this boy's spirit is slain<br />a victim of everything, whose efforts are in vain.<br />They make a mockery of him,<br />their mouths are spitting fire<br />he tries to reason, they won't relent<br />for evil doesn't tire.<br />As he lies upon the ground<br />with seeping wounds and weeping eyes<br />he longs to protest, to bring fury and flame<br />his rage is soft, a mere creeping cry<br />but he feels a torrent of anger gradually arise.<br />This emotion is destructive, if he could harness<br />its might and its power..<br />the audience will not leave this show unscathed,<br />their terrible taunting has left him enraged.<br />He brought a storm which tore through the night<br />corrosive acids which fall from the heavens,<br />a ravenous wolf and a venomous viper<br />children led to their death by the devil's piper.<br />He makes a mockery of them,<br />his sky is spitting fire<br />they try to reason, he won't relent<br />for justice doesn't tire.<br /><br /><br />© 2009 Florence ChallenderFlorence Challenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486672644020692109noreply@blogger.com0