Half as Quiet

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     For, Lady Lazarus - gone, but never forgotten. 


There's nothing half

as quiet,

as the nights

spent drifting aimlessly

through

your own pool

of sorrows,

a sea of deadly tsunamic waves,

seismically shifting my senile state, my

ailments, longing to belong;

a wailing lament, a song only sung in mourning,

the Sirens sing, a cascade of longing love.

A fatal flaw will be increasingly evident;

and it will asphyxiate you, a suffocation

of the vilest kind, a hamartia of hate, 

bound and gagged by a monster

that is you.

The deepest, darkest, and most

deranged depths of your mind,

drudged forward.

Azrael, the patron saint,

searches silently and oh-so-violently

on the dank breath for disdained Death.


      There's nothing half

as quiet,

as the nights

where you feel

rather than see,

Beethoven's 5th

sinister symphony,

played out across your

wrist in scarlet numbers,

a violent virtuoso of various veins

agape and skewed.

The blood lost is

nothing more, and nothing less than that;

an eery crimson trail

marking your progression

through this morbid musical.


     There's nothing half

as quiet,

as the nights

where your thoughts bleed through

the pinnacle of your pen;

bitterly covering the page in your

legacy;

cohesively forming a tragedy

which not even Shakespeare's

eternal Hamlet could

hope to avenge.

Line after line, page after page;

you'd think it cathartic,

but anything which involves emotion

cannot be purged thereof.

A game of cat and mouse with words,

constantly chasing this thought train,

but once caught, the abstract idea

slips through your hands as if

you were trying to grasp

an oiled snake, but, to

catch a thorn, is to

grab at a rose.


     There's nothing half

as quiet,

as the nights

where the darkness surrounding

you

isn't just an inky veil over reality;

it's more tangible and real,

the monster is under your bed,

the boogeyman is in your closet,

the abhorred horrors,

the demons,

are not just in

your head; Tonight,

they exist and dance.


     Do not let the night

become half as quiet as

it once was,

for then your sun shall never rise;

and the lunar sky will become

eternal.

You do not wish to entertain

the apathetic arousal

that

accounts for your loss,

or lost you will become.

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