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"Fall from Grace" by Strabo

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Down the doom-less days
I tumbled.
Like cracked stairs
they were ...
unwholesome
in their neediness
that I
could not express
...never.

Glancing in the shadows
of my past,
I find
saviors
pleading
for a mercy
none can bestow,
and my remorse turned
a blind eye
long ago.

The price to continue,
I found,
was wrought tough
like rotten wood
slumping into piles
of discarded hope
that sparks of happiness
left untouched,
untarnished.

Nothing can register
the chill
of lonely days.
Ennui creeping on
like a starving tiger
beyond the point
of hunger:
his cool breath,
my white neck.

Tomorrow the hunt ends,
 but the hunters have all left,
swallowed by the Beast.
A hunger with no sate
eats away the darkness
and the light
until all is negated
and I am
alone.

Stairs with no bottom
reach like desperate tendrils,
endlessly reaching.
I can hear their cries
as I fall
into myself;
snapped splinters etching
my outline
into eternity.

...Will you fall from Grace?



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On Tuesday August 31st, 2004, evolve (2261) writes:
Overwhelming intense work...glimpsing into something I can just barely comprehend.


On Tuesday August 31st, 2004, Litteratus (73) writes:
Graceful, dark, and penetrating. Excellent work with the wording, tone, and well, everything!


On Tuesday August 31st, 2004, evolve (2261) writes:
Holy fuck, it's Litteratus.


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, An Expired Member (35) writes:
I fuckin love the second stanza. Killer work.


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, stormtalk (884) writes:
Nicely done, particularly the tiger's breath and the ending. I could feel its moist exhalation on my back, like a clown-faced killer with my sense of humor and a flamethrowing chainsaw.


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, birdwell (173) writes:
have fallen, fell, felled by myself.. what a wonderful depiction of the ominous darkness ~db~


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, OLd SouL (834) writes:
'Stairs with no bottom reach like desperate tendrils, endlessly reaching. I can hear their cries as I fall into myself;' the ending was magnificent. The imagery alone is quite captivating. :::OLd


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, purr_verse (1427) writes:
ditto. "..etching my outline into eternity" is divine. excellent piece throughout.


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, Northstar (453) writes:
this is wonderful--the flow totally snagged my mind and drew me completely into this piece as it spiraled like M.C. Escher paintings of stairwells--amazing


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, Soulseeker (119) writes:
This is very original. It is something a lot of us do not bother to think about now days! It was a great write and a vivid one as well. Brillant play of words and great rhyme scheme! Bethany


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, Storm (184) writes:
Jikes I love the way you write, some of the rhymes felt very original and your way of thought connected with my mood right now. Outstanding!


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, Anth (1609) writes:
i really enjoyed this,u managed to capture such mood and feeling through superb imagery, especially fourth verse,an incredible poem


On Sunday August 22nd, 2004, Lord Kalgalath (228) writes:
already falling. very well done



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