I place my cold, clammy fingers, tightly around your neck
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
La Fiamma Tremolante...The Flickering Flame
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Cracked (Sonnet for the Hollow Man)
The gritty streets became his guiding hand
Through brittle glass he met the fiery beast
On heavy burdened legs he could not stand
The dragons kiss that licked his cracking lips
And stumbled he, backwards towards the wall
With broken oars, enslaved, he steered his ship
To drumbeats loud that brought his final fall
Through charity of homie's bent on greed
Of repulsive favors they did preside
Down a dark, dingy alley they did lead
This man in tatters with the hollow eyes
With crumpled bills he bought his final piece
He heard the ringing bells, his soul released
copyright 2010 Todd C All Rights Reserved
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Road
and that feeling you get as you ……
watch them in peaceful slumber …
and kiss them goodnight
Out on the road is a cracked door leading to the bone chilling cold
of the bedroom of typhoid Mary
where to enter is to risk it all…
and even to leave physically unscathed..
you are haunted by the unyielding knocking from the bare knuckles on
the persistent hands of conscience
Out on the road is loneliness ..
The ghostly breathing walls of a hotel room which..
collects the secrets of many …
and then secretes them in nightly imagined banter
until your locked, room door, invites you out into the perilous night
Out on the road is the stuff of broken dreams…
(not always your own)
Like an operatic voice that shatters the glass
on the brittle reality
Out on the road is nightly debauchery
Leaning on friends filled with misery,
dragging you down into their reality
Loving the company…
Acting hard and tough and hiding the frailty
Out on the road are late nights and even longer days
long past 9 am til you come out of the haze
Working your fingers to the bone ..
but you send ONLY the money home
and you Roam..
and you Roam
and you Roam
Out on the road you get lost along the way
You stare back in silent disgust at the sullen bloodshot eyes ..
and into your all knowing reflection you try to lie
and sometimes all alone in your borrowed bed you even ……..
C alls you never made
R eality setting in
Y earning loved ones left behind
Out on the road you often Dance with the Devil
but she never lets you lead
she loves to watch you bleed
she merely plants a seed
leaves you wallowing in need
But you never find that Shiny fiddle made of Gold
and in the end the Devil gets your soul
Out on The Road……
Copyright 2010 Todd C All Rights Reserved
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Sandman
Sandman
I'm the crud you rub so hard the moment you awakeFrom a night of hell, in sleep you fellHorrific dreams that I create..
You tried to move but couldn't, your body paralyzedLabored breathing, nightmares I'm weavingAs my REM attacks your eyes
You twist and moan to no avail, on your back and pinned to the sheetsYou feel a presence ..Yet unknownYour heart pounds in rapid beats
This world you're trapped in feels different, with an evil air of doomand this pitch black darkness seems, never endingInside the Sandman's tomb
I place my cold, clammy fingers, tightly around your neckas you wriggle and moan so helpless and aloneA night you'll not soon forget
I love to watch you clench your jaws and struggle to break freeIt fills me with such satisfactionOne might even call it Glee
I'm the Evil eye paste that keeps you stranded in the dark..I seal your lids from any lightFor my imagery is stark
I'm that foreboding feeling, as I pull you to sleep against your willAs you fight to stay awakebut feel a spine tingling chill
So try to resist, I love to watch it, stay awake if you canBut I always leave my calling card,your eyes packed full of sand
Copyright 2010 Todd C All Rights Reserved
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Lost Highway
The road twists and turns, pulling me to a means with no end
The lines blur my reality, as the back slappers drone on, in empty echo
The lips move in gibberish from hollow eyed strangers eager to draw in this scene
As bad wheels, turn in aggressive revolutions, trying to keep up
The bearings squeal, in dry grind
As the breaks overheat ….
unable to yield ….
I accelerate... to swerve the impending crash
The near miss leaving me
Exhilarated ….!
There is no sense in false security
Where lies, flow down a river whose banks are littered with empty …
shot glass wisdom...
promising eternal loyalty with glassy eyed pleading
always the same......
“hey...Is it my turn ?”
The mirror isn't for reflecting
for your reflection goes unrecognized
lines blur the reality
like zebra stripes in some psychotic circus
The greatest show on earth !
But it's all a sell out!
So you move up
Street Corner barkers, all to happy to let you take a peak,
extol its virtues in symbiotic raving!
There is no frugality in jonesing,
just the all consuming drive to get you more
Peeling back the green layers of your dark eroding soul
where you gag down the lies through the devils glass!
your neural centers....
bristle in accelerated euphoria,
bordering grand mal seizure
the waft of ether intoxicating …..
the skank in the corner
alluring...
You take in the accolades like a politician garnering votes
All, there for the crumbs
Fooled by an ecstasy as everlasting as a cameras flash …..
But the lens is covered ….
The swirl of dreams no more than a bursting bubble
The tears shed for you are many as you worm your way down....so low
Denial ... the alibi that fools, even you
You sing the suckers song.... “I'll stop tomorrow “
There is no more outpouring of internalized tears like confession
where in that moment.....!
You remove the keys from the ignition and exit the fast lane,
turning your back from the heap on the side of the road of,
The Lost Highway
Copyright 2009 Todd C All Rights Reserved
Monday, December 13, 2010
The Extinguished Flame
Friday, December 10, 2010
What If....(the Apocalypse)
What if you knew it was coming
would you hang your head and cry
Would you face this storm with courage
and just smile and wave goodbye
What if you had a day , a week,
would you finally open your heart
Would you swallow your pride and anger
before this world is torn apart
What if your last memory,
was one of heartfelt pain
Would you hold your children tightly
and let your compassion flow like rain
What if you knew you would make it
but in the process you'd be alone
Would you plunge your own heart deeply
with a blade just freshly honed
What if it meant that all the hate
would burn away like dust
Would you relish this infernal cleansing
seeking shelter with the just
What if you had to decide ones fate
could you really make that choice
Could you leave behind a loved one
without heartache in your voice
What if this happens in an hour
and as you feel the instant heat
Will your last thought be satisfying
from a life you lived complete
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