CATHARSIS

You banished the white flame embracing my solitude A touchless rape the mind’s seduction is my violation Destroy it reject that fatal stroke it is the destruction the imaginary and intimate death Take my sanity its like pornography exploitive soul limitations Eye shadow blood, smear it all over make the bloody mess of concealed sacrifice it until you understand I float in red sleep restless a blurry class of philosophical acid dreams the metaphorical traversities of my romantic death She’s drunk on his vanity never sufficient to what she craves she never forgives the cruel parameters limits slash close to vital arteries scarring a madness of hysterical influence Bile leaks from your words black and truthful organisms they bear cloys torturous bribe The easy corruption you are caught and pinned and I hate my threat Is that what is in this deplorable gaze The regret of the drowned wretch the unfortunate beauty clutching wildflowers and weeds as she faces her tragic end in her watery grave The same one is bleeding bleeding out her lifeless and murdered emotion she is gone away and drifting he is so beautiful in his elegant stance and so aloof he has eyes of misanthropic cruelty they shine the learned wrath of hate All I see these intriguing autumn Leaves changing out of reach they await their winter death the raw and biting suffocation choking on moral suppression

~Angela Boyce, 1999~