Sunday, February 25

Blood and Flesh

Will yours still want to graze my lips when the fangs glare livid?
Hold my hand when these claws come out of their slumber?

If an apocalypse is nothing more than a revealing of truth,
Imagine how many little boys were slaughtered 
upon learning what I have been trying to tell you all along:
this rage was not an accident,
 a mere whoopsy-daisy coincidence of a cluster 
created at random.

A child can comprehend the concept of cause and consequence 
But leave a grown man alone to beat on his beloved?
And some remain bewildered at her becoming.
Well, what could we expect
when instead of heart she grew spine?

It is a practiced thing this thorn in the flesh
I fear for the flesh 
what the thorn begets.

Postscript// You can appreciate a woman being disgusted by cowardice can’t you? I'm exhausted.