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Welcome to the Darkside of my Mind

After the contest for Job's soul is over and God wins, Job gets down on 
his knees and says, "Why did you do this to me, God?  All my life I worshipped
you, but You destroyed my livestock, bligthed my crops, killed my wife and my 
children, and gave me a hundred horrible diseases...all because You had a bet 
going with the devil?  Well, okay...but what I want to know, Lord-all you humble 
servant wants to know is-Why me?  So he waits, and just when he's about 
made up his mind God isn't going to answer, a thunderhead forms in the sky, and 
a lightening flashes, and this voice calls down: "Job!  I guess there's just
something about you that pisses me off."-Stephen King



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Where is life
In the dark,
Shadows that cross
Over the face
White; pale
As the horse.
It rides
Into the night
And the red,
Breaking into the black
And white,
Falls, falling
Into the dark earth.
All is saturated.
The earth is cleansed.



Bad Night of Sleep

Creeping like a spider
Inching up my back
Spikes slicing through my skin
Climbing up my back.
And I...

I scream out in pain.
It hurts and bleeds from my eyes.
Red tears and cursing.
Still I can’t run to get away.

The beast is upon me.
Can’t escape from it 
or be free.
The Pain is terrorizing me
From the depth of sleep.



"I never asked to be born in the first place" -Kurt Vonnegut



Dark Dawn

Light-yellowred
Slowly my eye opens
and is blinded.
Squint-
  raise my hand
Blocking away morning
It is not my time.
I reach for my glasses,
Closing my eyes until
They fit into place.
Ah, now I can see,
As they darken the world for me.



Crow’s Song

Is this the end?
I hear the chaos
Hiding behind the trees
In how the crow’s sing,
Discord in nature
And off pitch from the tonal center.

The force beneath the ground,
Life seems fading and weak,
The leaves that have fallen,
The trees bare in spring,
Blackened by crow’s wings,
And that song,
Nails on a chalkboard.
Is it a sign?
Is this the end?



What Dreams May Come

in Dead of Night near Dark past Angels Glow
walKing in PurgaTory Hell fear Fright
the Fire Burns aRound my Dead tombStone
he Laughs in Darkness Hidden From my Sight

in Distance Far off, Plays the Lyre love Song
it Rings in Mind with Thoughts that Echo Ever
her Light that Melted Stone that Was my Frost
the Heart with Beat slowLy in Chest crys Severed

the Skulls for Walls down Paths in Doors no Way
red Blood in River Currents Tide beNeath
i’m Drowning Lost in Crimson Fire Embrace
a Child reBorn still Fighting In my Death

the Child reBorn sees Sun on HoriZen
he Walks on Fire Free to Live from  Sin



Itsy Bitsy Fear

I feel it’s tiny prick
light
on my stomach
   how did it get there
It starts a march up
As I am paralized
Helpless
       Feel the eight seperate sensations
electrifying my whole body
It nears my neck
and my heart races
I can feel it climb
up my sensitive shaved skin
Then it sits on my chin
still coming
	(What would it taste like
	to open my mouth
	But then it would be in me)
It sits on my upper lip
Dearing to 
deciding between my 
nostril or to continue up
My legs want to shake and run
Leave me here alone to the eight legged beast
Decision made it climbs to the tip on my noise
I stare at it
	How many eyes are looking at me?



"Cowboy Night"

Time traveler
Post mortem wanderer
Through devil hills
And saints mountains
Timely arrival in the west
All want to be the wild best

Six shooter in my pocket
As I start talkin'
Nobody knows me
How can they treat me
When I walk through the streets
Listening to the whoring beat

The bar filled with hookers
All think they are the looker
I'm on my way to hell tonight
It's dead in my sights
Drink to much; kill to many
I pass out to my destiny

The Devil awakes me in his den
Talkin' me with sin
I look him in the eyes as he crumbles
Laughs loud as I mumble
Head rings with his breath
This jail is worse than death



"Intoxicated Madness"

I enter in the night
Walking dark halls
Seeing the red rain
As it falls through your world

Intoxicated Madness
I don't see the white walls
Inside is red
Inside; the world is dead

I am the prince of darkness
I stalk through the inside
The vampire desire
Haunts you...

Intoxicated Madness
I don't see the white walls
Inside is red
Inside; the world is dead



I find a reason to hate the world everyday.  I wake up.  -Gatlin



"Trapped Inside"

Constantly stuck inside my mind
Thinking of worlds, losing real time
My reality is in my head
The outside considers me brain-dead

They do not see my heaven here
My lovers passion heat share
Passion game we love to play
My dreams, reality, yesterday

A nexus of hope inside
There are no reason to hide
No desire for me to leave
I wish to the outside world could see

   "No! don't pull that wire
    I don't want to die here
    Let me out my paradise trap
    I want life, let me back

    Don't let me die
    I'm still alive
    I want out of my head
    NO, No I don't want to be"



"The Game"

A dull gray razor in hand
The blood in your tears
You cry youself away
With held in you fears

The line is thinning
Because for you it is too tough
Maybe it is...

But life's a game
Don't take it seriously
Just roll the dice
And play or slay

   He's gone
Left with a child
The bills' unpaid
He's just gone
Leaving no way

There is nothing
And you want to die
To leave it all behind
But think of her eyes;
Innocence watching you...

Life's a game
Good and bad, Rich for poor
You just can't walk out the door
PLAY THE GAME



"Spider"

The night spins it's net
The spider spins it's web
Streets flow with crimson
Washing away fire-sun

Hell laughs at it's mirror
Looking at God's fear
It's spider continues to roam
The soul's desert is it's home

The YMCA plagued to the dark
THe world is falling apart
The spider is roaming the streets
Looking to find it's meat.



"Killer Souls"

Death Valley
My soul drawn deep
I walk alone;
My boots burn
  and stumble down;
The farther I go,
The more I flame.

My hair is sinzed;
My flesh blisters and peels;
It's starting to melt away
Will I survive another killer day;
I'm just meat for the beast, 
His guinea pig roast
Cooking in the oven;
Walking the Death Valley


What a name
It suits it well;
I had a name
Some newspaper name,
Can't remember now,
But I was fried.
And now I am a barbeque



"Detectives have a dream.  When we die we get to haul God up before a Judge...
A Detective imagines this God in our court pleading 'Guilty with an Explanation,
your Honor."  -The Crow



"Welcome to the Human Race"

Firecrackers sounding like gunshots,
The red lights blind eyes,
Crimson through darkness,
The blood rain falls.

Welcome to the Human Race
Dying day to day
Losing all...
   in the human race

Scandal days trapped
Lives can't find
Truth is an unknown virus
Deadly and rare
Isn't life so fair.



"Appraised Life"

The day in night
Money in sight
Stench fills the air
Standing out everywhere,
It's power fills
But it can kill!

Stocks fall off buildings
It hangs from the ceiling
As they have come through
They can't play a poor-flute
The song doesn't play
Not for them this day

What is the price of life
The going rate today
A few bucks and keys to a truck
Well I guess I am out of luck!

Appraised life
Hands in the money bowl
Everyone reaches
Wanting the riches



"A Dying Moment"

Night, day, night
Full moon, sun bright
Heaven, loss, heaven
What is in,
The darkness in light
As I close my eyes
The open for the night
And see the heavens
Twinkling, away wonders,
    wishing to explore;
Not yet time;
Then I close my eyes,
And feel the cool wet grass
Soaking into my back
And I live....