REALMS OF REASON, INSANITY, MAGIC & MACABRE

Don't Look Back

SERVING JUSTICE You acted like you could be a grand duke Or next in line to be our new sovereign king I was just a number in your little black book A puppet you kept on a short gilded string A god you were, seated regally on your throne Evaluating all the girls in your secret harem Scrutinizing the chattel you could call your own If other men would agree just to share them How many women have surrendered to you? Enraptured between your black satin sheets Gladly relinquishing their chaste virtue As the wolf eagerly devoured the sheep You repulse me even more than myself Obscene in your shameless arrogance I will not be used and put away on a shelf With nary an acknowledging glance This cock has called out its final crow Hanged from your own gilded twine I have become your most formidable foe And I'm afraid this moment is mine Always fed from a spoon...

BLACK EYED CHILDREN Day left me, the day surrendered to dusk, The darkness was swift; the shadows there seemed to drift… Gray smoke, gray smoke, an odorous vaporous musk.  Silent steps, the silent approach of the ir gloom, Comes with the twilight, the empty void of the night… Cunning, cunning stealth; insidious comes the doom.  They appear, they appear ‘neath ominous shrouds, Floating o’er the ground no footsteps had made a sound… Carried, carried swiftly upon nebulous clouds.    Pale faces, pale reflections… an eerie glow, Eyes staring forward, confident, coming toward Me, closer, closer, I should run, hide, I should GO!  Hooded, like the reaper, like angels of death, Glowing faces of white holding me in their sight. Pulling, pulling at my soul, stealing my breath.  Two, together as one they came, they came… I could hear the call from these little ones, so small “ We are s...