paDEMONium

The ineludible darkness inveigles itself

into it's place beside me

Silence takes it's vows, as if this were a marriage in tie

it's episodes caught tangled

within the labyrinth of the vice

In this phase of pandemonium and chicanery dwellings

The hunger burns and the vexation dances

Within a ballroom of silent treachery

And abeyance of freedom is graciously distributed

To thrashing fish, caught mangled within their own anathema

throughout a land of enchanted obliviousness,

disavowal's loyalty grazed through shriveled petals

shivering bitterly across it's swollen breeze

of false offerings and unanswered cries. . .

from those who never prevailed beyond children

forever prevaricate to the trailing of an eye