theravenking

Achilles


I am tired of war

I am tired of smelling like blood, sweat and fire

wearing it like a second skin

tasting steel and brain matter in my food

I am tired of death cries lulling me to sleep at night

I am tired of looking at the enemy

as beneath contempt, as beasts

I am tired of feeling nothing as I take life...
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Not of this world


"Are your arms strong enough to comfort me

Or your lips lush enough to feed me

Are your eyes deep enough to quench me

Or your voice enticing enough to drive the demons away

and shame the angels into submission"





Can you begin to understand the artists' mind?




The man that would remove an ear

write his words in his own...
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Heart Surgeon


My fingers push against my

chest

and sink slowly into my

flesh

I wrap them round my beating

heart

and tug

there is a sucking sound as I rip it

out

I place it on a silver tray between a tiny silver

blade

and silver tweezers and begin the painful

surgery

scraping off and digging out the

pieces

of you imbedded there

So...
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Bonnie and Clyde


You and I go together like

Soft flesh and sharp razors

running and cliffs

bare feet and hot coals

eight year olds and loaded guns

so what are you afraid of honey

what can possibly go wrong

Don't you wanna outrun this ravenous lion

jump over this volcano

punch this grizzly in his honey loving face

no pavement is hard enough to...
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The Raven King


I sit upon a throne of dreams.

A crown of pain and pleasure past

rests upon my eager brow.

The ravens call me master

but I am their student

and here is what they teach.





True love exists. It is not perfect. It takes time to create. It has amazingly bad timing. If you are not ready for it when it appears...
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Musings


The darkest and the deepest hole

is the labyrinthine human soul

Repugnant horrors dwell inside

where fearsome spectres do reside

But take the suicidal plunge

into the depths you must expunge

the truth that lies at foul pits foot

wipe away the grime and soot

Until you do you'll be a stranger

passing yourself to and fro

for

The deepest hole is the human...
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