Dark Soul

Darkness in your soul

Diminishes the sparkle

Everything changes when you know

The darkness inside

One amongst us

So beautifully deadly

Swirling in surface symbolism

Mixed authentic morals

Money the institutional plague

Corrupting power  

Anticipating good with the bad

Besieged by industrial imagery

Pushing humans through an assembly line

Products in skin

Villainous glass houses

Judging people between the lines

Pushing arrogant limits

Darkness in your soul

Diminished who you know

Coffee?

Half full

smiling pout

Madness

Madness

Crazy little bite

Madness through my veins

An illness burning like Greek fire

Feeling the smolder

From the teeth marks

To the stem of my being

A fatal madness to hold

The cold burns so hot

Boiling hypothermia

The never was

Took everything

Leaving nothing

But a mistrust

tattoo of mistakes

Fusillade of doubt

Silent pandemonium

Engaged in this diplomatic falsehood

Remember when the ring went on your finger

That was the truth no one believed

Now they are right

Life observes with despair

Really no one cares

Stylized symbolism interwoven in fantasy

Darkness comes rushing over all

Words flying like bullets out of a machine gun

Each one tearing through my soul

Each one causing much ache

Triaging the despair

Everything a distraction

Healing with time

 Breaking the pattern

Quiet chaos lost in confusion

A ring of gold a silent reminder

A tattoo of mistakes

Another shell off the stern

Some mistakes burn

Leaving nothing but scar tissue

Weaving baskets in a war zone

Doubt with all the sunshine

Uncertainty with every thunder shower

Black Hearted Woman

Black hearted woman

Her eyes reflecting

The blood orange sky

Black hearted woman

Dancing under the moon

The drum beats hard

Matching her mood

Black hearted woman

Ascending into shadows

And pulsating strobes

Black hearted woman

Gets excited with the dying sun

Her eyes reflecting

The blood orange sky

Hair burnished platinum

In the dying light

Black hearted woman

Dancing under the moon

The drum beats hard

Matching her mood

Ascending into shadows

And pulsating strobes

Take you for a ride

Only to toss you aside

Her body shaking

Oblivious to the cries

Glittering eyes hold intensity

World vanishes into insanity

Body spins with all betrayal

Black hearted woman

Her eyes reflecting

The blood orange sky

Black hearted woman

Dancing under the moon

The drum beats hard

Matching her mood

Black hearted woman

Ascending into shadows

And pulsating strobes

Black hearted woman

Impulsively daring all

An impossible challenge

Many will fail

Leaving many broken

Under a buttery moon

Wordlessly she picks

One out of the crowd

Dancing under the moon

The drum beats hard

Matching her mood

Ascending into shadows

And pulsating strobes

Take you for a ride

Only to toss you away

Black hearted woman

Her eyes reflecting

The blood orange sky

Black hearted woman

Dancing under the moon

The drum beats hard

Matching her mood

Black hearted woman

Ascending into shadows

And pulsating strobes

Tainted

Played like a fool

In front of everyone

Disgraced and ridiculed

Used as a mere tool

Means to an end

On beck and call for fun

Not feeling the cool

Mocking laughter burns

Wafting long after

Stepped over like stool

Left to ferment under the sun

A hangover lingers

The joke before a punch line

Beleaguered and punch drunk

Playing car roulette

Chasing imaginary chickens

All the while smelling it foul

Tainted romance

Played like a fool

In front of all

Disgraced and ridiculed

Used like puck in a kids game

The tool in someone else’s diversion

A thrill ride to pass the time

Not fooling the cool

Mocking giggles behind the stares

Scars heal yet still leave there mark

Playing the small blind in a big stakes game

All in and folded

Played the fool