Beyond this world 
what becomes of us
hungry as night
desecrated by day
vengeful beings
hung by our own advances
inpenetrable 
honestly needing direction
feasting on ignorance
but salivating for guidance
what chance is there for that here
amongst the wasted 
the wretched
the complacent
arising from within us all
as lackluster as the light 
burning for recognition
hardly deserving
bastard souls
torrid beings
feverishly feeding 
needing to top off
the rush 
the sensual abyss
the eternal yearnings
festering within
as cumbersome as life
that out weighs everything
sordid and shamed are we
or without conscience
of the immortal 
and ritual like games we play 
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"Feasting on ignorance 
but salivating for guidance
what chance is there for that here"
I really llike that.  A perfect metaphor for a lot of things but for me right now;  main stream media!
I like this poem very much.
food4thought
And from the quagmire 
washes up bloody 
faces accused
rubbed with vengeance
nothing short of somber
the painstaking torment
the mighty backward fall 
onto beds of knives
kissing poison ivy again 
tongue forked 
crooked are the days 
lurking are the hours 
around every corner 
of ones mind
drifting into centuries
feeding off the bread of the ego 
of the indecisive gods
the drudgery of it all
as the day slides into night 
your head shifts its thoughts
and no backing out of this one
as the moon calls 
in a presumptious echo 
suddenly your home
it has you 
nowhere to go 
cocooned in dread
home again 
Time does not evade us hear 
Fallen onto ourselves 
and onto this earth 
Tears without weeping 
left stained 
indifferent 
merciless the way 
your hands clasped at nothing 
grasping at invisible straws
and their eyes staring without seeing 
looking without focusing 
perhaps even glaring 
feverishly their voices rising 
Time does not ever claim them hear
amidst the emptiness of the corridors
unbenownst to any of them 
their own timely sin 
breaching of a lawful trust 
Sanity never stricken 
but merely put aside
bloodshed in treason 
spots on the makings of a man 
shattered sympathy 
gleaming with some misfate 
a half-life
idling 
negligent in his values 
or even in his heresy
He stands tall yet awkward
as if meaning to say something 
to force the words through his lips
No use in pushing them though 
fondling without touching 
speaking in riddles 
without uttering a simple sound 
heaven hath never known of 
a solid fool as he 
he is mindless and lathargic
a king of his own drudgery 
An eviction in the making 
entertaining his own pettiness
a warlord of inferiority 
has he a complex?
Or is he doomed to his own disease
They fall in line
not questioning 
heeding each word he pervades
There is no twinkle in his eye
Hardly a stagnant glimmer or flurry 
not a spark
just his deafening undertones
his mindless outcries 
speaking of not a thing 
and then fading away 
his vioce dropping 
his look 
almost dignified 
lost for a second in his intention 
he is clueless yet fortunate
gaining respect through 
some malignant plight or debauchery
I stand in his shadows 
wishing to crawl back from fate 
itching for some healing 
some banishment from my own 
grueling agony 
tormented in my terror 
held back from the grazing of my own convictions
No mercy still 
no fury more eloquent 
no rage more distilled
and so frozen lie my fears
as if awaiting some rash thawing 
he remains unmoved 
not even a twitch 
he is ever the statue of ignorance
In the time and space between 
us and them
dividing us still
echoing in our souls 
restoring our faiths in one thing
apon our dreams 
lay a crust
once swept away
reform overcomes
Process this 
you must
call to me and weave 
a pathway
leading us at once 
clear across the cauldron
breaking past
the gateway
driving us to fear
living in our conscience
numb beyond refrain
damned to lost salvation
So who leads us hear
from dusk to dawn
who lures the spear
that drives us backwards
crawling beyond the landscape
landmines besiege us
becoming our core entity 
and I have yet to assist you
in your demise
apon the sanctity 
This great earth
a hollow graveyard 
I turn to you
taking in nothing
trust burned 
spirit sold
I relinquish my sorrow
my undying pain
and am forced back under
Them, with their knife like stares
slicing me with each glare 
gashes across the threshold of my 
minds eye
Should I go on 
faith lost
as the sordidness mounts
I am forced to beckon
to the enchanted kingdom
whom I once bestowed upon my reign
And so it seems when a part of one dies 
and you are still living
are you even alive
and so the time left has been tainted 
I can't see behind my life
behind my self 
inside 
blackness
abandonment 
whirling from within 
who can understand
or might wish to 
and so my bones ache
and my heart 
an emptiness
something torn from me 
not my chioce entirely 
not anyones "chioce"
A part of me dies 
still will forever be dieing 
laying continuously dormant
like a turbulent storm thats been anchored 
for a spell
swollen and enlarging 
about to succumb and envelop everything
And now the scolding of the memories 
wash me dirty with indifferance 
and not a more honest emotion is felt
not a more lethal tear disposed
collecting in my sanctuary 
pelting my heated head
baked from within 
seared as if to burn away everything 
one last touch 
hollow
a crimson smear 
I am helpless to defend
not even remotely empowered
so stay away 
my trepassers
who trudge on my day 
and throw pity into the dawn of it 
shame on them and their bloody haste
I am sanctioned by my own rage
like a walking, oozing open wound 
drunk by my destiny 
sanity in ruins 
going through the motions in suspended pretend
if these walls could talk 
the sweet walls
like canopys of carmelized flesh 
stretching, devouring, towering 
all encompassing 
it's not just rumured 
but all too promising 
my knees deep in sin 
the glory we denounce rank in 
the bile and the piss one can thrive in 
then as we sow our oats
and crawl from oblivion 
what is there
too much of nothing 
short on substance
a brigade of ignorance
and blunt sharp shooters
throwing daggers in the wind 
Suffering in my flesh
trapped in the folds
you disappear
as do the hours
than reappear as butterflies
unveiled is my horror
a faceless man 
forked tongue and 
he lies beside a river
knee deep in sin 
I suggest
he’s a southern gent
a true charmer
not to be he is evil
throwing me dagger like glances
he is swallowed in misery
wading in a pool of ineptitude
I sympathize with him for a moment
then I wish him dead
And the frost on the trees
and the frost on the trees
and the amber leaves and weeds and grass
the forest ahead
never appears the same
what's new is old
never mind the rain 
or it's persistence
traveling with me are my thoughts
keeping me company 
behind me is a graveyard of memories 
I killed along the way
suffer my desire
the creek of my empathy
gutted and dried up
so as is my fear
numb to all other existence
even to a higher power
wonder how to keep going
as I am living but dying inside
seeking my savior 
is she pile of crisp autumn leaves
is she the sap, a sticky patch of reverie?
is she a twig I trampled some miles back?
is she the stream I drank from or a puddle
I treaded through?
She will show her face
some day
maybe in a strange yet familiar place
knowing her will bring me no solace
fortunato I may call her
dead to the world
my drudgery
my heart of splinters
freeze-dried and heavy with tainted blood
and bloated vessels
Some of her words might prove healing
or her ways maybe spiritual
me a lost soul
clinging to anything
sufficed to find meaning
in the ghoulish gloom of my 
labyrinth like trail
hard pressed to salvage something
my sanity
am I but a fool?
or will I ever find me 
perhaps I was gone long ago
a shell is what remains
I can only save what’s become of me
white light
somber and sorrow stricken
meager and limp
like a hawk with a severed wing
And the times are wasteful
they bind us and suffocate us
they seal us off to the dawn of the day
I with my wounds I once prayed
someone show me the light at the end
Anyone bring me hope
carry me the rest of the way.
Is there an end to this ominous oblivion?
locking me away 
fear for the sake of fearing
hollowed are my screams
my grievances
dismal like the day
falling back upon the cold steal earth
Then hide as I like
finding you in this bitter world
a sparrow, stowed away from the chill of night
or a long last kiss
to keep the demons at bay
jettisoned 
saved only by the madness in humility
you are one but you lay down with many
you have fought your way
I am a dreamer who has floated along
stumbled on obstacles along the way
and the frost on the lake 
and the frost on the lake
thicker than the fog
overtop like pea soup
voices scatter
as do my vices in this pending hour
the braver I feel
the more my guilt drives knives into me
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