Beauty and the Beast

Hello Beauty meet beast

He'll offer you a platter,

but you'd prefer the feast.

Dispel limp hair

Course blood through dead veins

that beauty sure keeps you in pace

but when you break stride

can there come the ugly times

the desperate solitude

or aching pains

the tormenting whims

and the lovestruck craving lunacy

of the laymen

aspiring beyond his skin?

Hello Beauty

 meet beast

she offered you a whole

you only took a piece

You decide

fairy tales aren't always what they seem

because when Beauty met beast it was not a meeting

it was attaining one’s fill of meat.

On flight

Your departure was so final
Like a plane I  had foreseen going down
I watched you walking away
fading into the foreground
In every step I waned
In every step all the bright parts of me faded
Until, deemed dated, I left your face

In every pond I saw and every shiny mirror
I couldn't erase the image ofcold blue eyes staring back at me.
I couldn't erase whispered promises
from lips that were not your own.

The plane crash i had seen
You lay dead before my eyes
All I could do was hold on and tell you
to avoid flight

But you cannot clip the wings of a maven
Set off in flight
after information
you cannot provide.

Fog

The air was thick

Like blood in a wound that had sat too long

Sick with dirt and vain attempts at cleansing

I find myself reminiscing

On things that should be left in the back of my mind

In a lock box

Far from keys

The air got thicker and around my played images

Of bats and switches and words no five year old

Could comprehend

I extend my arm into the images

To wipe them clean

With shiny degrees and well lit foyers

Each time pulling back a bloodier limb from the effort

Each time left with naught but a nub to work with

Paralyzed by my own attempts at sanctity

I have become handicapped at changing

All the wiping has worn what strength I had

And the wound festers on

Images play despite the power outages

My heart has had to bear

And still the air grows thicker every moment

I hear someone say my name.

3 randoms

Beauty beauty

Caught and sold

Across the kitchen counter

Found her in a liquor store

And followed but to flounder

Beauty beauty

Quick to mold

And find the light of wonder

Gave her flowers

That turned to gold

Felt no lightning shudder

I loved her as a poor man loves

With naught but haught

And laughter

She loved me as a woman does

With nothing ever after

Amidst the dazzling lights

Luminescence from sources unknown

Beacon to the unknowing

Showing kinder cadence forthy flowing

Never seen or showing

She found him there within her dour

And laid upon him labels

Much like cloth and pencil there

He fit within her tables

The element she thusly claimed

Is definitely able

Yet copes to well

And wont stop selling

His incapacitating lapel

Chant it darling

Awake alive

Throw your cards upon the table

Squelch you sorrow

Sink and sigh

To pretend that you are able

Sing it sour

Awake alive

And mean it in your chorus

Awake alive

Live til you die

Do it by being honest.