I sail to shine in the vacant screams
of a dying dishonor as she violently dreams
might holds a thinning pouch filled with
melancholy schemes
and I am hooded from the sharper purities of
truth
or so it now so sadly seems
even before the unbreathable
self denial plugs the punctured lungs of self doubt
so to breath again
misery binds her new soul so to separate herself
further from life
and her eyes of tainted mystery
how they grow empty as if filling up with the
darkest night
tonight
as she is impaled upon by some sweet perfect
abductor
death
oh, how many wish they could trade places with
her soon sorely won fight
veiled redemption slowly walks out of the mist
to greet her at 'The Between End's Bridge'
and together they stroll
arm in arm
into the awaiting light.....................
(Oct. 30, 1995)