Thursday, February 27, 2025

arson

 My soul is a storm beset in myriad ways 


Torrential and volatile from uncountable days  


As the swell of the sea rising past the shore 


Where the anger of æons always beckons for more   


 


there is a demon within me I cannot express  


the powers it gives me are framed in duress 


As if a pulsation, of some frenzied swarm 


Like a face so familiar that I often preform 


 


a comforting gesture, as gift in the haze  


It rises within as an unforgivable blaze 


Caustic and vile like holding a flame 


These gifts I have shaped have no spoken name  

 


& I cannot relinquish, nor ever forego 


The whispers of influence these talents can show 


To have without holding, I keep as a blade 


Blinded by light, to be made whole in the shade