Vanity [Original]
Title: Vanity
Disclaimer: I own this
Rating: 10+
Warnings: none really... death?
Awards: Breathtaking in Poem Contest
eighth place in Wow me!
Notes: Wrote this during a bored, slow shift at work. Really love how this one turned out. Poem.
The desert dry is chaffing
Air rattling in my lungs
Ev’ry breath an ill whisper
Palms groping for the sun
Legends swept across the land
Seeking one to listen
Snaking up my leathered neck
Upon my ears they christened
Sirens gentle sobbed their tales
Moaning through the water
Chills of immortality
And the children fathered
Pressing through the blist’ring wind
Crying out for favor
My flesh flayed to nearly bone;
Ahead I glimpse savior
Promises of youth ripple
And my dead crawl hastens
Greed wraps claws around my neck
To plunge my head within
I suck the water eager
Destroying dreams and plans
The fountain I have died for
Is nothing but the sand
Disclaimer: I own this
Rating: 10+
Warnings: none really... death?
Awards: Breathtaking in Poem Contest
eighth place in Wow me!
Notes: Wrote this during a bored, slow shift at work. Really love how this one turned out. Poem.
The desert dry is chaffing
Air rattling in my lungs
Ev’ry breath an ill whisper
Palms groping for the sun
Legends swept across the land
Seeking one to listen
Snaking up my leathered neck
Upon my ears they christened
Sirens gentle sobbed their tales
Moaning through the water
Chills of immortality
And the children fathered
Pressing through the blist’ring wind
Crying out for favor
My flesh flayed to nearly bone;
Ahead I glimpse savior
Promises of youth ripple
And my dead crawl hastens
Greed wraps claws around my neck
To plunge my head within
I suck the water eager
Destroying dreams and plans
The fountain I have died for
Is nothing but the sand