Order order
Words in order

Order order 
The judgements
Fall

Order order 
The stanzas come
Unaligned and 
Dissonanced

Order order
Words in order
Worlds of wonder
The judges rule
Their soles crushing

All hope of

                    Progression

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I breathe in your raging fire
Choke on its acrid smoke
Words once merely

    Innocent 

Now tears the fabric of my 

    Verity

So young at heart, yet so 
Far beyond the date of
Human expiry, I no longer
Meander among the

    Living

This moment of incertitude
Obscured by persistent rain &
Clouds of judgement, clouds
My 

   Judgement

A final thought mayhap 
Where to – 
Why can I not see
The path taken hitherto
The path towards this 

    Oblivion

Without the powers to 
Foresee, I seek without 
Finding the untrodden path
The byway towards

    Salvation

Towards Salivation
I wail,  grasping the trunk
Shaking for the rotten fruit
To drop, wishing for a wind to
Take me to the house of 

    Ale

Away from the house of hell
To take me far beyond 
The point of 

    Returning

Alas, reality returns with
Your eyes alight, poisoned
Uncovered veins 

    Vibrating

I breathe in your raging fire
Choke on its acrid smoke
Words once merely 

    Innocent 

Tears now the fabric of my 

    Heart

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 Join the perpetual sleepers 
 Dream of everlasting crave 
 Descend the abyss 
 Unending
 
 Burn with me 
 Let your final thought 
 Become the light for
 Others!
 
 Scan the encompassing heavens 
 Howl at Mother Moon 
 Descend the abyss
 Pursuing
 
 Burn with me 
 Let your final thought 
 Become the light for
 Others!
 
 Mind the gap 
 Purge the white line 
 Descend the abyss 
 Beloved
 
 Burn with me 
 Let your final thought 
 Become the light for
 Others!
  
 Leave your mark
 Write your legacy
 Descend the abyss
 Bequeathing
 
 Burn with me 
 Let your final thought 
 Become the light for
 Others!
  
 Light the flamethrower 
 Torch our final bridge 
 Descend the abyss 
 Dreaming
 
 Burn with me 
 Let your final thought 
 Become the light for
 Others 

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 I vowed to steal
 A single word
 From a page
 In a script
 Long forgotten,

 Left on a shelf in the
 Darkest of convents
 Covered in cobwebs
 Enchanted by hexe,
 The book of eld
 Summoned me

 I vowed to scatter its
 Ashes before me as
 I prayed for her 
 blessings –
 
 Oh  My Lady, Hear me!
 
 My precious Lady of
 The Moon gather
 Accept my offering of
 A single word scorched,

 Once bred by sorcery
 Magic old as the heavens
 This word is now – obsolete
 
 I vowed to continue the
 Mission of purging until
 Every single word had
 
 Ceased,
  
 Until every poet
 In the land stood erect
 Silently wishing 
 They had taken
 Better care of
 
 Their legacy

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Windswept

I entered the night oven, the carriage to
Another place; towards the light of
Day, I remarked at the flickering of
Thought abandonment

A personal hell amidst clean sheets
I found the darkness in turmoil,
The feline friends without, fighting for
A mouse or otherwise

Left naked and alone in the land of
Nev Yn I rose to find a fire ablaze,
A star of the lost thought of night
Descended

She only gave her mother’s name
Windswept – as the angel ascended
My sacred soul in tow, across the
Heavens

Clutching the void I dreamt of peace &
Her full understanding, wishing days of
Sorrow were finally behind me, alas,
No divine revelation unfolded

Closer and closer I fought an urge to
Scream, then wither and detach from
The grasp l had never really held in
Earnest

Without a thought of consequence
I let go and her darkness embraced
The physical embodiment of hope,
The final days of being – done

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