Red papers over windows.
Must you block the sweet colored sun?
Must yours clock thy world in redness?
Must thou turn the colors deep?
Out, out damned spot,
out red smudges from my wrist,
out crimson shadows sprung forth from
deep visions, tainted in blood.
Thick red curtains drawn over doorways
blocking the soft colors of the earth,
blocking the slowly dripping muses,
socking all but those draped in crimson.
Why must thy thickness scorn lightness
from your red crocked hands?
Why must thy fingers grasp at the sunshine,
shading palaces a tick hot red?
No rose seen red from sliding scarlet daggers
just blood made heavy
by wicked ways of war.
If only time was sprinkled in lightness.
If only spots from vicious tongs would
never spout from lips not unlike thine own.
If massacre formed form wondering words
Then why must this place colored so?
Out, out damned spot
to you I make my leave,
And yet outside still thine sight spills red,
their droplets in the golden fields.
Upon little mounds with molted faces,
upon red curtains darkened black,
And upon devil eyes these lifeless hills,
swallow me up into their blackened solitude.
Author notes
inspired by:
1.)Red tissue papers on all the windows of the high school durning spirit week*
2.) Shakespear's "Macbeth"
3.) The book "If there be thorns" by V.C. Andrews
4.) My own blistering guilt*
"this is a lot of explanations kids... so just tune in..."
Comments
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I disagree with soapbox. I really enjoyed the thee's and thou's and I think it added more to the context. It made me think of dark castles.
I didn't like one part:
"upon red curtains darkened black,
And upon devil eyes these lifeless hills,
swallow me up in a red painted black."
I think a better word choice is needed her, unless you used black twice for connotative diction.
But bravo, sir, bravo.
I like the background too, b y the way. Not sure if it's default or not. <.<
Toodles,
Lucas
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interesting
liked the work but i think the thees and thous (even though iv used them) are a bit over the top and can make the dark subversive into the melodramatic. but considiring the shakespear reference (kudos on that) i gueseit fits. so thumbs up from me
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