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TorturedJester
02-13-2004, 01:36 AM
There’s a sign on the door of a crumbling shack,
I can't read the words but the feelings are sublime,
I feel like turning back but I'm midway to nowhere,
I forgot where I was going still my tears fall with time.

Like leaves into the shadows that toss around my body,
shading me from sunlight where I hide from my crimes.
For I hear the voices weeping,screaming out with curses,
why! why- why! , was I brought here just to die?!

Afraid, I trudge along , the windy road to nowhere,
decaying with the seasons, a fading snapshot,
in the eternal picture album where my photo shuns adhesion,
bitter by the treason, I'm a soul that God forgot.

Somewhere,somehow,something will break in me,
I'll have to decide if life is still worth living,
for hope broke its wings while trying to gain freedom,
attempting to love deeper when noone else is giving.

Now I talk to carcasses and candles half-heartedly,
I bathe in darkness until my eyes see the truth,
I listen to my heartbeat, whimpering and beaten,
I look at the sky and I can see my wasted youth.

Sometimes I dig further and I can feel the velvet lining,
taste the stagnent air near the bed I'll call my home,
I can always feel the tears I hold, bubbling in my system,
It’s then I think of dying but instead I choose to roam.

The writing's on the wall as I near the resting grounds,
where I fathom becoming a phantom, a fathom beneath the soil,
but I never pull the plug or abort the futile mission,
instead I trudge and crawl until my very flesh has spoiled.

Despite unbending pain I continue to smite the heartache,
that gnaws at the best of me like worms inside the feast,
I've finally read the words and my soul has been shaken,
" your sheppard has been slaughtered by the hands of the craven beast".

Dandylion
02-13-2004, 01:46 PM
for hope broke its wings while trying to gain freedom,
attempting to love deeper when noone else is giving

How well I know this...this is so dark my friend, so beautifully dark. My room is alight with shadows now as I read your words. It fills the air. I have missed you, missed seeing your brokeness upon my screen. This is stunning bro. You amaze me and I cant wait to read more. And do call, you are missed and you know how I worry;)

Cheers to you my Black Market Dreamer~ May the world take hold of what we already know~Luv D

Territorial Hawk
02-18-2004, 05:45 PM
Sometimes I dig further and I can feel the velvet lining,
taste the stagnent air near the bed I'll call my home,
I can always feel the tears I hold, bubbling in my system,
It’s then I think of dying but instead I choose to roam.


Wow.

TorturedJester
01-23-2005, 08:06 PM
Thanks THawk, was going through my port and checking out some poems I overlooked in replying. Better late then never, they say. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my work. This poem was written at a time i was really shook up. Haunted to the bone and as real as it gets. Not many commented on this one but its one that is very very close to my heart cuz i meant every last word. I got through it. Peace, TJ

Ladyburst
01-24-2005, 08:48 PM
Glad you got through it...
Excellent write!

.Ladyburst.

VelvetCrow
01-25-2005, 09:54 PM
TJ your poetry never cease to amaze me.
Excellent write.

TorturedJester
01-26-2005, 01:39 AM
Thanks Ladyburst, its always a great pleasure to hear from you.
I appreciate your continued support VelvetCrow.
Both of you have a peaceful day, TJ

Bryan
01-27-2005, 02:01 PM
*speechless* umm wow TJ this is just an awesome piece one of my fav's by you

TorturedJester
01-27-2005, 07:21 PM
Thanks alot Bryan, thats a really cool comment, bro. I appreciate it yo. Have a good one, TJ