Don’t Go Away
I only want to be loved
Held close and told I matter
That my broken meter
And broken wings
Won't drive you away.
I'm afraid of being alone
When I tear at myself.
I'm not good enough.
They always leave.
When I give my heart and soul
They go away.
I can't rhyme when I'm afraid.
I can't write, nor paint.
The dark circles and drowns
Killing the light inside
Because they always
Go Away.
I'll smile and put on my paint,
Dance in my broken way
To keep a smile on your face
Hoping you'll stay.
Please don't go away.
The Secret
Secrets whispered in the halls
Enclosed within these numerous walls
Softly crying, softly lying
Soothing now our restless thralls.
Did you hear about Wayne
How he flushed her down the drain
As she lay crying, dying
For some floozy, now his main?
No, I'd not, who'd have thought
They never once had ever fought
Such a love, ever flying
I'd not known another he sought.
Secrets whispered in the halls
Enclosed within these silent walls
As she seeks the Truth, ever trying
Fending off the creeping palls.
They can never, ever invalid tell
How he raced eager to the dell
With that other that denied
Knowing of the secret rank and fell.
They'll sigh it at night ever after
When new children cease their patter
In the ancient rocky halls
Where once rang her loving laughter.
Building the Suit
The night wasn’t dark and rainy
The film’s not rough and grainy
It’s actually quite bright and sunny
And the red river is deliciously runny
I think it’s rather delightfully funny
My knife was sharp and sleek
The victim tied, oh so meek
Into my window I’d seen him peek
As I worked and clacked my beak
Now sweet vengeance I wreak
This mask I wear I quite enjoy
As I gaze at the dying boy
I'll play with him like a toy
His death brings such joy
And in my work, he'll deploy
So he wanted to know what the hacking
Was in the room I'd been barring
From him after every date's banging
This is what he gets for braving
And into my secrets charging
One more kiss my handsome dove
Why was it me you had to love
Calling me an angel fallen from above
Oh, your voice, such sweet octave
Don't worry, your hands will be my glove
When your skin is cured just right
Together we'll set others to fright
Feeding on the sultry forbidden blight
Culling the crass from the night
Boots will come from the next we smite
The Storm Goddess
She drew another breath deep into lungs wanting only to cease. She burned to her core and past, into places she did not know she had. The woman waited on the peak, watching night fall, the stars grudgingly come out to shine on her mirror bound to her belt, and the moon roused from her tousled bed.
The goddess spat as her eyes fell down, envisioning the life-giving water landing squarely on the reason for the steady leak of energy from her heart. The claws of her feet gripped the stone beneath her, preventing the wind from blowing her away. Not so her clothes though, which she removed and discarded. Where they danced she cared not. They no longer mattered.
Her name she offered to the winds next, welcoming the numbness that welled up.
Her mirror, guarded for untold eons as she flitted from body to body, fell. A grim smile spread as the silver shattered, the cold of the top of the world matching that which protected and killed her heart. The formerly purple scales faded to white, while the blues tarnished black. Her feathers fell from her six wings, and those that clung to the pink flesh stretched from bone to bone were blizzard white shot with blood red. Her tail thrashed as she tossed her horns.
The winds ate the teal greedily, pulling the feathers to pieces just as they had done her siblings so long ago. The last. Tainted by man.
The clouds gathered and blacked, filling with her hurt and malice sacrificed. Her laugh echoed over the land. “So be it then.”
The crash of thunder. The flash of Heaven’s Fire, now black and purple as she gave up her ties to the material. A shimmering version stood where the physical disintegrated, and then another flash, this time of darkness, and four shards flew to the corners of the world.
The clouds opened. Once more, the world would drown. This time none would remain. There was no one left to cease this kind of rain.