FACELESS REDEMPTION
rocking chairs vacant
the lone whisperer
reinvents himself
standing anew
someone else
other than you
envisioning
unknown realms
a crucifix painted blue
a lucky buckeye
and swirling immaculate
hues
darkness has friends
spinning wild lies
cloud-faced depression
pacified
with awkward tongues
too tired to pretend
breathing with angry lungs
unable
to mend
memories spin
laughing
I'm him again
to my chagrin
it never ends
the
windows run
our quest is done
wandering through barren wilderness
a golden
beggar's sun
lost reflections
memories of rust
spilling lies
liquid lives
saturated
parched
by excess
leave nothing to trust
a shed of coal dust
a fine mess
blown
into a furious gust
you've been blessed
redemption is a must
awakened
to
a dawn of strangers
blind assumptions
repression clears
the path of
doom
absent tears
consolidating madness
insanity looms
swimming in
our fear
words empty
a stranger is breathing near
condensation
rolls on shards of glass
a glimmer of obsession
it comes to pass
one
can dream
delusional bliss
it comes fast
nothingness
transcend everything
become
anything
a million fragments of myself
a world on a whim
seeking
solace
sanctuary
someone else
opening my eyes for a fallen friend
trying
to be a universe again!
sneezing out coal dust
dancing around
the pigpen
skipping into the apple orchard
wild-eyed strangers encircling
fire
unconscious confessions
a setting so dire
uninhibited fools
naked
mannequins
faceless
whispering heedless words
unremembered
unheard
moonshine
warming their hands
unlocking their minds
simple strands
burning lines
beneath
a sky of lunacy
pretending everything is okay
screams of futility
kicking
at imaginary dogs
unreality
haunts his existence
jousting at a face
of bliss
a caustic wit
or a closed fist
blindness
smiles
remnants of lost
worlds
pointless swirls
unexpected guile
they're easily unfurled
shell
casings
blood-stained knives
disrupted sleep
untrained eyes
evil arrives
the
world is a mound
of clueless tiers
hands down
liberation hides
switching
gears
reality slides
and surreal scenery goes flying by
minds are emptied
into night's reign
he's never the same
anything but the norm
bleeding
pain
scrutiny
shame
grand uncertainty
a single flame
a fragmented
plane
the promise of light
demeaning names
and an underlying
sacred swarm
ending the game
the eyes are cold
the water is warm
we
live
we lie
we linger undone
so timorously racing
against a swollen sun
make
your fate
love
kill
and create
beyond us lies everything
anything
more than our meager lives
Poet’s Bio: Clifford K. Watkins,
Jr., is a writer/poet/lyricist/rapper originally from
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