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Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

0 posted 2004-01-19 04:38 PM

Storm of Tears
©2001 - 2004 C.G. Ward

drip

     drip

night crashes darkness,
collared angels scream the sting;
   creation dawning at the brink of
   madness betrayed through life,
   and chaos reigned by blindness.

yet there,
    stooped before the pillars of recollection,
   an old man -
        smooth of face -
faces tomorrow gazing behind.

his hopes: dust.

   charity: stolen.

dreams?
    they've faded into a wash of grief
breaking waves of salty frost
over a mocking core of unyielding self-pity.
        cast naked into the fires of regret,
     he labors them out incessantly,
       if only to recall the lack now burning.

wearing a waterproof stole laced in
        diligent masochism,
he waits.
      weeps.
      -rejects the life
he could brave without this fantasy collection;
    shards of spite breathing whispers
            ...into the years of many ago.

so head to stone,
   knees to rock,
he prays.

still,
answers don't fall from the heavens,
   truth doesn't burst from the skies.
     and peace,
peace doesn't well from within...
  only the ache - painted gray -
         rolls forward to breach the chasm.
familiar and loathed, rife with despair,
it strides his life edged in denial.

at the end, it is only a small piece of his soul
left sacrificed at the altar of pain.
tiny, since so little there remains.

     defeated in desire,
     shattered in solitude,
     he rises to depart.

flying from the chalice of a nightmare,
he soars over the banks of asperity
to land at the feet of demons,
each a cackling bolt
crashing the din through a storm of tears...

drip

   drip

[This message has been edited by Christopher (01-19-2004 07:03 PM).]

A Romantic Heart
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

1 posted 2004-01-19 04:51 PM

Christopher I am glad that you reposted this..it was one of my favorites of yours~

Glad to see you ~

~ARH

Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, let me come in and show you love.....~ARH

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2004-01-19 06:59 PM

Truly a piece worth having published! I held my breath as I read this. Thank you for reposting it.

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

3 posted 2004-01-19 07:31 PM

so head to stone,
   knees to rock,
he prays.

still,
answers don't fall from the heavens,
   truth doesn't burst from the skies.
     and peace,
peace doesn't well from within...
  only the ache - painted gray -

Your words are always awesome Christopher, but this is going into my library! Chris

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