Caught

In the dark a breath against your own,

Her hush
Blown through the corners of your mind,

The west wind that soothes,
Comforts,
Soundless and still,

The echo that resounds with ferocity,
Ever increasing,
Ever foreboding,

Her breath against yours,
Stealing.

Standing at the gates

I came,
Running,
Screaming as monsters
And demons
And all things hideous
Gathered at my back.

Nipping
At my heels.

Biting.

Chewing down on flesh.
Upon flesh.
Upon flesh.
Upon bone or skin.
Upon life as we have known it.
Knew it.
Seen it.

Inhaling such a fine stench
Of blood;
Dried
Or weeping
It was hard to tell.

Where they failed to care.

I wanted to,
Thought that I should,
But terror prevailed too the extend
That I,
This wreak,
A creature of frailty
And error,
An abomination,
Sailed past the gates
Opened to afford me safety
Straight into the arms of the devil herself.

And there,
Resided.

Until all that was reflected
Was the image
She had so meticulously sculpted.

Perpetual Motion

Shifting
Changing
In that moment when you thought
Your feet were firmly planted
She takes the ground
From under your feet
And you find yourself scrabbling
Running for terra firma
Clawing through vanishing earth
Filled with the fear
A dread
The unsettling knowledge
That if you could only reach the target
You would not be safe
Never as she promised
Because the goal post would move
Again
With you
Caught in the endless cycle.

Semblance

We could never lose,
Were never meant to,
At least that what we were
Led to believe.

Rotten waste sculpted,
Laid out for all to admire
And gasp at;
The genius of an artistic mind,
Beautiful without even knowing.

Only it all bollocks,
Complete and utter,
As my father would like to say
And apparently the rest of the world,
If you care to ask.

Do you care to?
Or did you know all along?

Plotting to hide the truth away
Leaving just me,
A faltering idiot,
Who all could laugh at.

Kings

I wanted to keep you
Even when I knew I couldn’t
Shouldn’t

Far passed the end of the road
Worn and fading
You were the only thing which remained real
Tangible
I didn’t want to let go
To be cast adrift

I wanted to keep you
Find a way to bring it all back
Make you smile again

Like I owed you

My safety net
The last heart that would ever been mine.

(I saw the others fall away.)

Guardian

Was there beauty in the words she whispered
Close against your ear?

Because I thought I saw you cower,
Sink down to shredded knees
And weep as innocence was lost.

My mistake;
She could never be
anything other than an angel watching over you.

Bonded, bound, broken

We are made up of layers
like over the centuries
we
have been bonded together to be
made strong.




A mass
of impenetrable armour




worn.




Worn out under the gaze of
traitors in our midst.




Now my layers are nothing but
translucent
a covering of tissue paper strung out
against her wind.