"The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name."
-William Shakespeare

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Beauty is a Beast

For every last one that slips through my fingers,
There's a feeling that lingers, pressing my heart.
With cold, dirty palms, the bruising and squeezing
Leaves me wheezing and begging for help.
My chest stressed to fracture, I'm chasing conjecture.
I'm reaching for something and finding no grasp.
The beauty is a beast with foul motivations.
With wine and perfume, she masks her frustrations,
Drinking and flirting and cracking a smile.
I'll be here for a while.
Perhaps till I quit rolling 'round in the shit in a quest to find food.
The sustenance screams at me, then disappears,
Preying on fears that I haven't the grit.
Still, notions persist that this can't be the story.
Surely some source of this glory exists.

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