Perdition : Writing

Deafening

Deafening

A Poem by Perdition


You ask me how I view this world, your presence deafening, sun perched and simpering on shoulder, In the eavesdrop magnolia breeze your hands reach in..
Tell me

Tell me

A Poem by Perdition


Tell me,If only by threadthen by threadstell meI'll wade beside your wishI'll crawl into the prayerI'll walk through nightif by a single wordbeside yo..
A Question

A Question

A Poem by Perdition


Is this enoughto love what comes in shards and fragmentsEnough to spare our open woundsIs it enoughthese words before the light of summer grows coldTh..
The Greatest Sin of All

The Greatest Sin of All

A Poem by Perdition


If I could leave this secondturn and walk away, all thingsclean, returned to unbruised memoryI wouldn’tBetter the sun with its planbetter the ra..
Time, time, time

Time, time, time

A Poem by Perdition


It is hereon this rooftop I belongwith my piranhatrail of despondent cloudsFamiliar as family, once perhapsfamiliar as the rope around my neckIt is he..
Over

Over

A Poem by Perdition


All of it,sudden, goneNo Red Sea Horn of AfricaNo castanets fandango or sitting beneaththe Pisa shades of our white shelled Sycamore.It is over,all of..
Sweet and Honest Lies

Sweet and Honest Lies

A Poem by Perdition


“ I was born for this”, she angles, her hair tangling with reflections of street lights and white shadows, the background that finds uspoo..
Lyft

Lyft

A Poem by Perdition


I slid into the back seatan occupanttattoos with red hair steering in front of methe sound of a gracious voice and a swift helloa recent smell of a ci..
Released

Released

A Poem by Perdition


Silence in every soundmy tired hands tremblethere is only this dim last hour here with methis last passage read in ragethis world, this world,This wor..