As My Tears Run Red

Feeding I stare off into the moonlight Searching for answers The keys to your heart The visions you provide are just Your dark path so secret So secure Alone, I must find my way With my eyes closed I can feel you enter Your beauty unequalled Across the sea, I hear your call Soft and gentle Piercing the night and my soul I call Reaching out with my mind My heart My soul I am your slave My mind, body, is yours Decisions are made Feelings of desire overwhelm Alone I sleep Staring at the rocking chair that is my heart The unknown Such an attraction My life must lie along a different path Or does it You call out again wanting to feed On my dreams On my desires On my soul My veins are ripe with life With thoughts of you Your beauty Your love Sunrise is near Our embrace delayed My eyes open Alone again

Streams of crimson appear in my soul My desolate heart craving more My pathway to reality far removed Pleasures turned to pain I look but cannot feel I touch but cannot see Emptiness engulfs my visage The despair tormenting my every thought With every heartbeat I want it more I want to dine upon the forbidden fruit Drink the plague-filled wine Yet, these desires cannot be real These feelings cannot exist Streams of crimson have pierced my soul My blackened heart beats no more My pathway to life removed

Lately, I have been suffering through some poetic writers block. This is frustrating, as I have been able to work through some other writing issues and this is the only one left. Here is a piece that came through as I attempt to work through this. Any feedback would be appreciated. The doors to my dominion were opened Unraveled by the despair I held dear My life, reduced to an empty canvas My heart, reduced to a blackened host I was lost, broken by a life once held near Shadow's of remorse haunt my every move Visions of beauty pierce my soul The taste of your flesh soon will be but a faded visage The forbidden fruit prophesized in scripture The revelation of my reality Will there be a rapture? Or will our eternity be plagued by the lies of the forsaken Worse, I will survive alone

Every night her struggles survive One fragile heart saddened by an unthinkable specter Her wish A faded memory staining the land Her fears A nightmare thrust upon the world An unwanted son Waiting quietly to pierce the darkness Surviving to fracture the boundaries of reality The cloven hooves The chilling howl Echoes of time not forgotten Many search the evergreens calling young Leeds Sweep into our dreams Comfort us with your soft whispers Let our destinies unite His presence reminds some of perfection Yet, to others, it is a vision of evil Every night he struggles with the loneliness His mind wandering the pathways that will be Hoping to find the love of a mother lost Or a life never shared His torment, in this world we now share Within the reeds he calls home Myth or legend Devil or angel Forever he will survive A lone link to days of yore A dark shadow in the fabric of the whispering pines Following his go...