Thursday, April 6, 2017

Poem #6

Words choked the life from him.
A chicken crossed the road to save him.
His hands balmy, his tongue soured like lemons, gasps barely escaping his throat
Watching him slump to the ground and the smell of a lifetime of rigor mortis arise.

The light beam of words pierced him first when he crowned from his mother
And stunned his body through to his soles, inked onto a contract illegible to him.

A mister Malcolm mistaken for nobility of northern Scotland.
Yet my brother, King of Uptown, creating life with his words.
Long live the King!

Finances of finessed wages, meager, waging war
A raging war sprouting lilies in the valley.
Cloth talk and words upon words.
The vibrant flowers of bravery.
Blossoms scarcely showing across the land
With concealed hues unrecognizable to the amateur eye.  

Words, incantations, evocations;
Arise, long live the King!
He is ascended from his sleep, alive and well.

Charlie is here to greet you, to bring you word.
Do take care to those words that loom the wire.
What you hear is true.
The suspicions, fears and insecurities of mortals wrapped in fabrications.
These conversations will attack, they mastermind your demise.
Backroom chats with mind boggling, gut wrenching, unfathomable words.
Words that haunt, that kill, that lurks for you.

Behold the black lilies of the valley,
Tarnished by the drought of the seasons and winter refreshing.
“Guantanamera!”
Words, incantations, evocations;
Arise, oh lily.
Take up your roots;
Pack your fears and heartbreak in your knapsack
And leave this place.

Letters, uttered, body ravaged, air seized, subdued

Lies, characters, murmured, faulty inscriptions, choking.

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