Share

Share the hurt
Until it's halved
And halved again
Until it's shrunk
And slunk away
Share the hope
Until it's grown
And grown again
Until it's bright
And lights the way
Share the joy
Until it's sung
And sung again
Until it's easy
And breezy each day
Share the life
Until it's yours
And yours again
Until it's done
And spun away

Rotten

An appetite for cruelty
Unmatched even by me
Whose self-hatred was
Thought endless
Before you marched in
Full of falsehoods
And brittle earnestness
You take those of us
Who yearn for escape
Straight back into the
Bowels of our terrors
Under the guise of
Understanding and
Guidance misled
The sting of it is
That rotten hungers
Cannot be sated
So you sink deeper
Into depravity
The scars left
In your wake
Quietly festering
Unhealed

Tattoos

Each and every drop of ink
Embedded in my flesh
Earned with my blood
Is a reminder
To persevere
To keep on
Keeping on
Surviving
No matter what
Life swings at me
Pain
Sorrow
Grief
No matter how
Desperate I am
To die
To be at peace
To stop the noise
Inside my head
I persist
I paid for my life
With too much pain
To give in now
I think of the hot needles
And I walk on

Bess and the Highwayman

You sang to me
Under a full moon
That painted you silver
Against the starlight
And your beauty
So strange and striking
Caught me once and
For all the King's men who
Captured your fine head
I wilted before my own
Sharp and sure blade
In death's embrace
I found you again
Enchanted by my dark eyes
And together we ride
Ringing death knells
Over these lonely roads

Valueless

Humiliated
Heroin chic
Degraded
Disallowed self
Ignored
Imitated art
Abused
Absolute power
Traded
Street valueless
Forgotten
Freedom found
Resurrected
Rape recovery
Bordered
Baseline beast

Luna

Goddess Luna
Pulls my body
Like the changing
Tides
She enjoys the
Sacrifice sent
To celebrate her
Fullness
How can I
Deny her whims?
I dare not
Resist
Instead I doze
Bleeding freely
Disconnected
Dreaming of depredation

Static

I spin and spin
The dial
But all I hear
Is static
Are you in there?
Somewhere?
I cry and cry
So loudly
But all I see
Is vapour
Are you out there?
Somewhere?
Come in from the cold
Tune out the white noise
And connect
With touch
Taste me
Rest with me
For a spell
Breathe in the quiet
And surrender
To secret soundscapes
Of our shared exuberance