Here it comes like a spark
I can see it in your eyes,
In the twitches and the flinches
You fill the room with the scent of lies,
I could scream but you'd deny it,
I could stay quiet but you'd only whine,
Either way you're on the moment
Primed, pumped and ready for a fight,
Faithful only to your alibis
And expert obscurity of proof,
Vomiting lies through a sick sweet slick ass smile
But I can smell their lust all over you,
You stink of slow gin doped up sweat and bile
With an appetite for misdirected abuse,
Sick from that fatal cancer called your life
You choke and wheeze on your allergy to truth ;
You satisfy the whore inside you
But it still isn't enough,
I'm your faithful after all nighter
When you crave the taste of blood,
You take the world from behind
Like a cheap two dollar fuck
And find me an unsuspecting proxy
To punch and get your payback nut ;
I've got the room
So tell me everything you did,
Now I'm in full bloom,
Come on and fill me up again,
Go nice and smooth
Grin and stick the dagger in,
What's left to lose
I'm drunk and dizzy from the spin ;
Give me overrated hatred all wrapped up in tainted love,
Show me pistol whipping kisses
Hiding in that velvet glove,
Throw me up against the wall
And bleed me like your favorite drug,
Stomp and spit to burn your best regrets
And drown me in the flood ;
When the storm is finally quiet
I pick myself up off the floor,
I can't help but laugh at this sickness
That has broken me to the core,
Stumble down the hall
I'm standing stunned and frozen by the door,
Looking at the sleeping face of human waste
That past mistakes adore ;
If I was just a little more like you
The bruises would taste better,
I could drink the pain like sugar water
To make the dry heaves wetter,
I could hide the shame in needled veins
And whiskey written letters,
Then beat to bloody pulps the ones I love
To pay off all my debtors ;
There's no more room
I don't give a shit about who you did,
Reality blooms
Here comes that emptiness again,
So nice and smooth
When you stick the dagger in,
Either way I lose
Too drunk and dizzy from the spin ;
It's time to go
I know we've danced our last dance,
Before I blow
And while I still have something left,
Now it's me or you
And it's getting much too hard to breathe,
But the next in line
May not leave you sleeping while they bleed,
A little "rest in peace"
It's an eventual certainty,
Down to the you or me
That's when you know it's time to leave,
Now I'm free :
A contest entry
- Cryptic Tongues by Violent Serenity.
1200 points, ended April 19, 2008, 17 entries
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Comments
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a good piece that mixes my favourite imagery of drink and booze and dark twisted love all into sliced ribbons of anger and hate
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Thanks much, I was way down deep in a Courtney Love moment when I mused this pice to life. It was an intense write and one of the very few if not the only where I actually had curse words come to mind while writing.
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You have some great lines in here, too many for me to quote them for you. I always struggle with the cursing thing, but it's probably because I have my own issues with it. It actually seems appropriate in this and adds to the emotion "eventual certainty", as you put it. Best of luck!
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Thanks much for your time. I do not use alot of pop culture or cussing in my work either. This one though, the subject matter and the emotions involved, the cursing just seemed to come out. I guess considering the the content, my muse was just angry.
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oh my wow... this is such a well written creation, the words chosen each perfectly and naturally. well done on this write, keep it up and good luck in the contest.
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Thanks so much for your time and consideration. Always a joy when a person sees something between the lines of value.
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I never liked anyone's poems...I have to admit I loved yours. It touched me and only mine have ever been able to do so...You have a gift and you have a talent..if you can reach the heart of people like me then all is not lost but indeed gained even at the price you must of paid to write this and free a person like me. Thank you. rockghrl78@yahoo.co
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Thank you so much, I am trully honored. I'm overjoyed when someone finds something of worth in a piece of work, it makes it all worthwhile. Thanks again for the kind words and encouragement.
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