My Year of Writing Dangerously

On the spur of one of my (increasingly rare) moments of inspiration, I decided that in order to maintain my artistic integrity, and because I can't keep calling myself a writer for much longer without actually WRITING something, I am going to write a poem a day for the next year. The first poem will be posted on August 10, 2010 and the last poem will be posted on August 10, 2011. (Unless, of course, I decide to keep going.) Not all of the poems will be good, and DEFINITELY not all of them will be interesting, but I will gaze around my kitchen, my living room, and Coming Home Cafe until something inspires me, then write a poem about it, as well as my random thoughts on the mundane things that no one notices, but which it is my goal to immortalize over the course of this year.



Friday, July 8, 2011

Day 134 - Haunted

I wrote this a while ago. It's dark. It's incredibly dark. But there is it.

-Humanity's Remains-
I hear the sound
of a thousand tortured cries.
I hear the sound
of a thousand torrid taunts.

The Earth is bleeding innocence
from deep wounds cut by evil.
Its exposed heart beats
and I feel mine break.

I hear the sound
of a child's neck snap.
I hear the sound
of a taut and swaying cord.

Vomit rises to my throat
the putrid bile burns.
The world's guts are seeping out,
infected to the core.

I do not understand
It can't be understood.
It defies nature
for any soul to be so corrupted.
It defies nature
for a child to witness this,
to be eviscerated by this,
to create this wretched beast
and inflict in on another.

Perhaps it starts with envy
that cancer of the soul.
Perhaps it fuels hatred,
spite, and rage,
which propel furthur torment.

I hear the sound
of a bullet crunch a skull.
I hear the sound
of a body, torn to meat.

I hear the world split to shreds,
each scrap soaked in blood,
and strewn with pulverised flesh.

Humanity's remains.
Filled with promise,
pure with youth.

They never had a chance.

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