Emerald scrubs melt in jade light
Room shifts fuzzes all around
In my hazed out trembling sight
Needle enters I have drowned
Gushing liquid through my veins
Ears fill throbbing squelching sound
Weighted limbs tied up in chains
Surgeon inhales beryl mask
Scalpel raised each muscle strains
Slices in begins his task
Plenty blood to fill the cask
© All Rights Reserved Caroline Adele O’Brien
They come in Silence
on the westbound zephyr
hovering black on black
waiting deep within the night
They come in Silence
but it shall not last forever
Do well to guard your back
lest your screams greet the light
© All Rights Reserved A. F. Stewart
I cry
I cry everyday
Every single day
Several times a day
It makes me feel better
My cave is cold
But I know it
It is dark
But my eyes have adjusted
It is silent
But I do not mind, so much
My cave is sorrowful
But in it I find
A strange kind of comfort
I decorated it once
And it became home
When I’ve been away
Dancing in the light
And somehow find myself back there
I feel the same cold
The same darkness
The same silence
The same desire to stay.
Overcome:
In my body, dark insects cling.
My soul grows weary of their sting.
They run my body, while I cry.
Today, the other two will die.
Paranoid:
They’re out to get me, this I know.
They’ll wring my neck and kill me slow.
But in the grave, I’ll never lie.
Today, the other two will die.
Psychotic:
They’ll never see this sharpened knife,
Until it’s sliced away their life.
I’ll hook their skin and beat it dry.
Today, the other two will die.
© All Rights Reserved Caroline Adele O’Brien
Child bangs on the door.
Roof’s heart beats to trembling rain.
“Help me!” cries the child.
Walls shriek with each winded breath.
Windows reach their shutters out.
Child is stolen in the mist.
© All Rights Reserved Caroline Adele O’Brien
To know the future
Is to know the horror to come
To know what stalks us
Calling from the darkness inside
How do I explain
The forces that words can’t describe?
Who can believe me
And stop them before it’s too late?
These words I speak, these things I feel
I want you to understand, and see it is real
My will grows weary, strained is my breath
All that’s left now is to wait for…
The shadows are deceiving
The nostalgia is all lies
The memories are fleeting
And have lost all of the ties
To reality
And what really happened
Darkness falls
as the world spins
across the universe
an organic cog
in a biological
machine
Stars and suns
sputter, spent
Darkness falls
like a thick curtain
on the inevitability
© All Rights Reserved A. F. Stewart
The Storm is moving closer
The peace, the security;
Anger strikes out knowing no reason.
The weakness to be strong
the elusive quality of tears;
a sorrow lifted.
The knowledge of the alluding strength
– my salvation –
The holy water of your tears
turns me to bitter wine.
– Goodbye –
The walls cannot crumble
The heart does not break apart, evenly
The intensity of feeling, the passionate emotion;
Nearness, togetherness…
Distance, innocence…
– Au Revoir –
To know my soul, my heart
open the windows, my windows…
Look behind the curtain
to my soul, through my eyes
– Welcome –
The Keeper of the Walls
© All Rights Reserved Kim Koning.
Kintsugi Poets Society 