My ego conspires against me even more than my appetites, and those dripping beasts have no motives other than my destruction.

I give in to my appetites often as not, but am never fooled by them.  Self conscious in my submission to temptation, there is no duplicity there, just want and abandon.

My ego, however, always coming at me obliquely, from ( Read more... )

Beware the white knight, for however shining the armor, they are always a tyrant at heart.

They may also be kind, munificent, patient; the heart has room for many things, but to don the trappings and step into the role, one must believe they possess a solution for someone else's troubles.  One must believe they can not only recognize dragons, but ( Read more... )

This sensuous beast

This rage

This poisonous, dissenting love

of hunger and hate.

Believing for years in the kind and hopeful

How far

How dark

The traitorous fall to Pandemonium.

 "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one."   ~   Voltaire