Your life upended,
just wanting to feel good
for a moment,
The serpent slithered down
and flicked your ear with
a silver tongue
Betrayed, you were
hung up
strung out
and dying slow
The jester bested
the king
And the pain of your need
dimmed the light of your soul
You’d say anything
Do anything
Kill anyone
And now
the programs sprout
like mushrooms
pretty with disease
nutritious with bacteria
And you live in
cold and wretched
shadows
in cold and wretched
places
with a cold and wretched
heart.
and cold and wretched
voices in your head.
I would reach out to you,
but you won’t put your hand out,
except to pull a weapon on me
and have me supply your
demon’s need
Sometimes I just gave it to you,
because I knew you once
and recognized your shell.
I can’t return home,
And you can’t leave.
Is this goodbye?
I wish we knew
I wish it wasn’t
I hope it isn’t
but as we idolize
the parasite
that infested you
as he drives his Escalade,
his rims spinning as he goes
nowhere, a reflection
of both of you,
I can only look in from
the outside,
and say
I’m sorry
our
friendship
our
brotherhood
could not make you
feel good enough about
you
I still hold out hope,
my brother, that one day
through your nightmares
a dream will come instead,
and
you too, will remember
the man you
used to be
I’m standing in the light
calling
waiting for your
crawling shadow
to pass the dirty window
I’ll still be here
when you answer,
if you answer,
but
it’s up to you now…
Beyond Panic 
Powerful piece my friend. Nicely done.
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Thank you. Think that might have been a little too raw for most, but that’s no reason not to write it…
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You have to be true to yourself, true to the piece and tell it like it is, my friend. People will either like it or not.
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Yeah, you’re right. If I start second guessing myself, I won’t write anything. Thanks for the encouragement.
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Anytime, my friend.
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‘Humanity Redeemed’ was a FEATURED work on Niume. This was a site I put something on two years ago and got absolutely flat response. This year I’ve had two pieces featured: Dance You Now…Spirit and this one. Excited! (now if only my novels get the same response, 🙂 )
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If only…I’ve been saying that for years my friend. I think I’ve given up on the novels to concentrate on my poetry.
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I’ve decided to try for an agent. I know it’s going to be a heart-wrenching process, but two of my friends who started writing AFTER me are now published authors. One poetry, one a novel. Time to go for it.
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