Saturday, July 27, 2013

To Whistle and Never Blink

Death is a great waste
A waste of potential flung out of this place
Nevermore to rise and fall on the wings of grace
Grace so profound that it ever increases
Ever increasing and never ceasing taking its path with care
Reveling some hidden secrets left in a half-forgotten nightmare
Oh, let the dreary disillusion be done and never spoken of again
Until by chance a black horse galloping down from the mountains again
Some secrets should not be left to chance

Do Dead Men Grin?

I am a nut case, with an eye dangling from around my neck and the sleek shadow draped across my thick form, no one sees a clown for what he is: a manic-depressive sociopath. As I look back and reminisce of the once-was, almost a full year in the choking past, I realize it was always the quiet moments, those times when I stared dumbfounded in joy at my meant-to-be-bride. Always the times when in a joyous stupor I tripped over my words the same as a drunk trips over his own shoes. Those are the times I remember, those are the times I can still hold dear and fast to my heart. But I have to grow up.

Pounding drums won't let me sleep, but I don't want to. The moon is shinning, and she dances just for me. There was a day, a day when I hosted a ball in honor of the Fairy Queen, but there was a language barrier, even when I didn't realize it. My words ran like mud and filth, spewing like spit and spittle from my mouth, she rightly fled from me. But recently I have made new friends, friends who can speak my language without flinching, and as far as I know, they are masters of the Verse.

A long time ago I was stabbed in my heart, it was ripped out, and I bled slowly into Death's embrace. He held me so tight, and kissed me softly on my cold lips, oh how I wished we had met under better circumstances.
I am rising slowly from my grave, Lilith and Brünhilde are holding my hand, and a gelfling maid is showing me the path to Heaven. Few things seemed to make me smile when I was alive, but now that I am dead the very sunrise makes this dead man grin.