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JOURNAL #29

by midnight's grace

I will know thus reply

in some answer yet revealed

in a twisted lullaby

for the universe unveils herself

as most strangely beautiful to me

from this fact I do not carry any myth away

amid the music and lash like flow of the night

as time passes these lovely life's bones by

the gush of crimson holds her paper machete ending

within the guilty hearts of the gathered evil involved

some pasts

walk us through

our every moment there after

the one that shadows

which has most gruesomely occurred

free love indeed

in one brutal instant

stepped aside to make way

for murder and a subsequent devastation so insidious

that television still revisits the anti life scene

to capitalize on an era of the spiritual bankruptsy

of youth.............

Melissa

(Written May 19,2004 4pm)




Author's Notes/Comments: 

my reaction to seeing yet another version of HELTER SKELTER made and put on television yet again. as a kid the first one gave me nightmares! Do we really need to see such lack of humanity again I wondered then it hit me oh well, this is a free country and one that loves blood guts mayhem and gore at regular intervals, so to aleve my thoughts on this matter this poem came crashing onto the page.

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©19 May 2004 - 8:11pm — palewingedpoetess
7 October 2004 - 5:44pm — Anna M.I. (not verified)
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I loved this poem... unique topic and very touching... I've syudied the Manson murders and actually find the subject most interesting... Yes, I do "love blood guts mayhem and gore" not so much because of the loss of human life, but the processes of human thought and emotion that results in beautiful works of art such as your poem.