As My Tears Run Red

Now that I am totally rewriting my zombie epic, it seems as though I have a lot of extra poetic verse that will not be making it into the project. While in some ways this is a bit disappointing, it definitely gives me a lot of stuff that I can post on here. Please give this a look, any and all feedback will be appreciated. Who are you, my vision of beauty? You still seem so familiar to me I feel as if I can sense your every move Experience your every fear I can see you standing there Trembling at the horrid sight before you Did one of my brothers do that? Do I need to ask? Alas, the bridge to the promised land Our union… Our destiny… Our reality ahead I saw this in one of your dreams dear The yellow towers rising from the depths of the rapids The dark mouth opening ahead of me It is just as you described… It is perfect Where are you taking me? Why am I following you? There it is again… My hunger Others must be closing in I must… I must...

Complete Me The wax has hardened Your image so pure May plan nearing the goal Now, I need your essence Be it hair, blood A tear Something to bring your likeness to life To me Long have I dreamt of holding you Fantasies held impossible Nightmares that challenged my resolve Everyday I would stare through the grotto Piercing silently into your world Wishing it was I on your shoulder Instead of that glistening feathered friend I want to share your laughter Feel your pain Penetrate your warmth The ecstasy   The bliss Yes, it is time to complete my plan This string will do The statue is ready My ritual at hand These candles burn to illuminate you Scorching forbidden pleasures into my soul Our journey finally in my sphere NEVAR UOY EVOL I Come to me NEVAR UOY EVOL I Complete me

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...

  Darkness surrounds us Opening the doorway to our desires Transporting us to a place where we can be Your touch a reality Your lips my sanctuary Our souls crying out for more Holding you, I feel complete One life under your spell Leading me to unknown pleasures of happiness Where your words softly echo my every thought Where your eyes ignite my passion Someday this darkness will fall Our destiny on display for all to see Yet, we will still be Our love The beauty The pleasure The sacredness I feel on your thighs In your arms In our hearts A life full of happiness Where our words can be spoken aloud, our passions real Where we can be together One heart One soul One life

  To me, you are more than beautiful You are balance The perfection of dreams The prophet of thoughts My muse in darkness I often silently watch your every move Contemplating thoughts of desire Subtle hints of lust The projections from deep within your bounds Craving your touch Plotting my next move Our next encounter Like the Marquis, I long to take pleasure in you To pleasure you Regardless of the forbidden pain it may inflict The deeds I imagine Only pale in comparison to your beauty To life An existence we already share Felt in the bond deep inside our souls Our hearts Come to me Constance Consummate our secrets Prey on my hunger Hold me close, I am waiting for you  

As I sit here recording my thoughts You have no idea, no inkling That soon I will be your unforgiven Not because of the truths you hide from Or a deed so heinous But, for the perception of betrayal you will imagine Acuity lost in your reality Not based in the facts we search Little will you realize that I am indeed right My motives just Instead, you will forgo reason The embers of your jealousy Igniting the flames of hatred So unjust Yet, somehow expected An undeserving finale From the beginning My heart and soul bled for you Standing up for the cause out of trust Desire for the equality you offered Now, all trust lost Desire now despair My mind as dormant as your heart My vision along another path To you, the problem is invisible Blinded by greed, makes it so Insecure with everything, everyone Scared, afraid to stand up to the smallest challenge Or criticism for that matter Do you live? Or are you just a pawn? From my perspective, neither! To me, you were an equal Now, nothing A ...

Through the dying moonlight he appears Secret no more Death shudders The gates will open at six A pilgrimage awaits acceptance Their paths unknown, their crimes unforgiven Except for her The pale, naked beauty in front Entrancing the mass Angering the gods Her crimes meaningless to the righteous Their self deceit blinding them of the genius Soon, redemption will show the way The embers are lighted Her stake stands erect From the darkness, an angel appeared Tormenting the siren with flames from the inferno Repent Repent and be saved The gathering tightens the noose Impales her upon the altar Gazing across the horizon, she cries out The flames caressing her subtle breast Her soul alive again At last, the baptism is complete The contract etched in stone Marking forever with her ashes The congregation falls silent The lord of darkness shares his embrace Welcoming one and all into his kingdom Their sacrifice was just His cravi...

Not far from the grotto There lies a tomb Run down and dilapidated It hides the secret well Through the cobwebs and decay This empty sepulcher cries out Hoping for the master to return It did not always lie this way He was here Or was he? The name on the stone The carvings on the wall So ornate Yet, unbecoming His greatness masked by the mystery His life marred by tragedy I was a child of 13 when I discovered it Much older when I deciphered it Even older when I understood it Or was I? The heir, I was not Just a bystander to the inept Jealousy and rage filled the air How could they ignore this grand monument? Him, for that matter Sure, this house lay dormant Only a faint whisper of the wind Not even the rat or the spider ventured near Or did they? My vigil, waiting for him was long Days of staring turned to weeks Weeks to months, months to years This candle burned The flame of my innocence turned to passion Truths understood The tears of my prayers...

Such a dark day in the world Leaders defiled The protectors destroyed in your name Not by the masses that follow But, from the hypocrisy of medieval royalty For what - your secrets? Jealousy? Fear? Maybe it was just their shame from following the false prophet The sinner who hid behind his disciples And worse, women and children Spouting lies of redemption Preaching abstinence instead of indulgence Creating turmoil in the perfect world Through it all, you stood tall These destroyers of forged faith were blind Failing to harness the power of your minions By creating a day of homage of their transgressions They granted you eternal life History crying tears of truths in your name You will never be forgotten You Baphomet, will live forever Like the Templar’s, your followers will bleed for you Carrying on the traditions past down by the strong Your enigma, a mystery to most A companion to some A day of fear to the meek That day is today, Friday the 13th

Today I stand Peering into dominion Searching for the pathway to your heart For years, I have waited Longing for your touch Hoping to explore the illicit boundaries When we last met The embers of jealousy turned to flame Partnerships to hatred Our identity lost Our existence no more Life is so different now I have changed My path no longer harbors light Only darkness Desires My heart remains empty though Longing for another sign A void only you could fill My fantasy, an impossible dream? Perhaps After all, I am only a memory now Your unforgiven

Shattered Slices of pleasure take a toll Alone you lay Tears of pleasure Cries of pain Hear the last gasp of sin? Scarlet streams line the walls Silent spectors enjoy the performance My altar is clear My soul whole My sins.... 

The fragile one rises Speaking volumes with the silence Projecting visions into the emptiness Destroying hope One world out of touch Lost in the spiraling masses of descent Two bodies make one Four eyes make six Reality cries out The fragile one screams Another day ends

This is from Walking Before Dawn  (available for kindle or email me for a signed copy) and was also published by Whispering Spirits Magazine .   A lone tombstone Elisabeth Alone in the heart of this sanctuary Are you the one? The maiden we search for The Green Lady The legends vary Drowned in a swamp Taken by a scorned lover Satan's seductress I am here Alone Come to me Many have seen you walking Hitchhiking on the lone dirt road Traveling the downward spiral into the depths of stone Snap I take a picture A beautiful light shines clear Is that you? Unveil your vortex Open my blindness Let me share your story Symbols burnt into the earth surround you Did they succeed? Summoning you from your slumber Conjuring your restless spirit Flirting with an unknown evil If so, can I enter? I belong with you Come to me Silence Suddenly I see a figure Is it you dear? No Worse, it is legion These cloaked figures rise from the ashes Surrounding me They want my heart My soul My life They w...

This is going to be part of my zombie epic (if I ever get around to finishing it). Unfortunately, I am unsure which character is speaking to me with this one. I am sure I will figure it out in time... It haunts me in times of solitude A vague whisper of a dream I can almost remember The lingering warmth of a forgotten touch I sense it there, in the darkness In the quiet moments of times I can barely recall Resting on the limits of my reason It calls to me, urging me to cry out Only to have my voice echo into nothingness It is a history that was written in stone ages ago And every figure of it has faded away To leave me here to live in the shadow of a wraith A vision of what was and a lost wish of what may be I know it, and I know it is there It waits for me to discover it once more To unearth the secrets it holds and find myself Because without it I am but an undefined impression of possibilities It becomes me as I have always been a part of it A promise that has exi...

I just received an awesome email from Charlotte Gledson , a great writer and one of the editors of House of Horror Magazine notifying me that one of my submissions has been picked up for Issue #2, the Spring Break/Road Trip edition. I cannot wait to see it! Information on this quarterly print publication can be found at their webpage .

Every night I struggle with reality My fragile heart saddened by the void in our lives My hopes A faded memory lost at sea My fears A wall of tears around my heart With you, I can live again I lay alone Waiting on your beauty to pierce the darkness To fracture the boundary that keeps us apart Beloved seraph Sweep into my dreams Comfort me with your soft whispers of love Echoes of lust Our destiny Remind me of the meaning of perfection The happiness felt in the morning interludes we share The way you complete me Every night I struggle with the loneliness My mind wandering the pathways that will be My hopes A silken vision of our bodies as one My fears A torment of the world we now share With you, I will live again I lay alone Waiting on your caress Longing to feel your flesh upon mine Precious angel Fall into my arms Tempt me with the splendor of your breast The softness of your lips The future Lead me to tranquility where our souls combine Our empti...

Mysterious lines cross the sky Did you see them? He was there upon the bridge Staring into the chasm before the despair Alive again Shaking the mortal landscape Their foundations cracked Apparent only to the blind Did you see him? His return prophesized in scripture At least forty years have past since the last encounter The signs were all around A moth flew across the clouds weakening the rafters Blinding the populace with dissent At last, his message revealed Did you hear him? Mass destruction followed The past rises from the ashes With the meek again standing guard More disasters abound Two more if the legends are true Those eyes burn with laughter Did you see them? The grand wings unfurled His presence feared The moth again takes flight The locations planned Devastation near Remember the point His rise to immortality Will this time end the same way? Will the innocents' death be in vain? They bled for him Their souls sacrificed for the good ...