A wrinkle in the canvas: |
Two drops of sunset set amongst the bleeding petals of wilting roses
I paint a portrait of the condemned life cycle of the beautiful and the vain
all fades from the lovely to the terrible fraility of ...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:47:00 PST |
Through the looking glass: |
With whispered thoughts
and shattered names
I stare into a vortex of an unparalleled, dark design
chanting symbols that writhe hypnotically in the air
the lingering fetid stench of sylables permeates ...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:09:00 PST |
The lost cities of Eyahgo: |
I stood on the cusp on a new world
a dawn of a feverish dream
and a land spoken only in hushed whispers
my eyes saw a shadow spread out across the plains
as darkness is the light of these hallowed gro...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:15:00 PST |
Vapoured memories: |
I cannot cry when my tear ducts are frozen
I cannot feel because the emotion will collapse my lungs
steal my breath
steal the last kiss from my lips
the haemoraging mind spills forth the blood of memo...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:24:00 PST |
D minor: |
The hopeless sinks over my heart
as my reality lays stripped bare and dismembered
I know a leach has attached itself to me
inducing this coma like sorrow
sucking the optimisism from my thoughts
and fu...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:56:00 PST |
Only the haunted: |
One last gasp before dawn approaches
that silient scream that escapes no lips
and your eyes lie wide and frozen
paralysed by the fear of the unknown...
cracked mirrors lay by your beside
reflecting&nb...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:15:00 PST |
Hope between skin and the imaginary: |
The flesh becomes weak when dusk approaches
my horizon of imaginary landscapes
out of the fires of my mind a universe is expanded
I lay still in the emptiness between life and inertia
feel my hope exp...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:07:00 PST |
A parody of flames: |
Built beyond the flames
I'll see you...
when the sky comes crashing down
No longer hurt by the memory of pain
I have outgrown the past
and your nothing but a memory
when the sky comes crashing down
I'...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:57:00 PST |
A glass of fine wine: |
Drinking alone by the starkness of a flickering flurorescent light bulb
half dead in its desire to bathe the room in the light it with holds
with each cast shadow my haunting approaches
a lithe form f...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:55:00 PST |
Vapour trails of longing hearts: |
I break my heart across the bedroom floor
scatter the petals of emotions at your feet
and caress the skin of the subliminal form
an hallucination of my desires
by the moonlight I kiss a vision of my h...
Posted by 5 Minutes to Midnight on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:09:00 PST |
