I Heard the Angels of Madness

A poem.

I saw you in a dream

The many-myrtle'd dove,

Skin scintillating gleam

Eyes fallen from above,

I watched the Earth grow cold

When you flew to Heaven's Bay;

In darkness I grew old--

My dreams all flew away

Mindless yearning stills my breath,

I wait in haunted grove,

For you, for Life...or Death--
Madness stalks where I rove;

The bloodless woods grow chill,

All life sinks underground,

Barr'n trees are statue-still,

Iced silence chokes all sound,

The woods brood so deeply,

Sifting leaves cease their dance,

The bones sleep so sweetly

Caught in immortal trance;

I wonder what they see--

Dream, vision, or nightmare?

Cauldron helm muffling plea--

Into nothingness they stare.

I saw the world grow dark

When you left me here alone,

See the phantom shades hark!

Hear Oblivion groan!

I saw the Heavens fall

When Angel Dearest left!

Hell itself heard the call

Of Dread Death's monstrous theft.

I saw the moon turn black

When you left me for dead,

God--how my soul did wrack!

Tears of blood did I shed!

How I bled!--How I bled! 

You left me with no shred

Of ghoul heart's throbbing red,

Cut off life's puny thread

And laced my soul with dread--

From all hope have I fled

On Love's Carcass I've fed!

Leave no ghost in your stead!

Lightly walk where I tread,

Doomed to die or to wed--

Fear me, alive or dead.

Away fiend!--or die instead!  

Hear the sins I have said:

Only horrors you've bred

And filled my veins with lead!

Claws scratching in my head...

Nails thrashing in my bed...

Mouths gnashing while I pled--

Light fleeing where I led.

How I bleed!--How I bleed! 

The tears on which you feed,

Agony of your greed

Cruelest barb of your seed.

See the blood!--See the blood!

Roaring torrential flood!

Gushing thickly rose-mud,

And oozing from Death's bud.

Hear the screams!--Hear the screams!

The monster of your dreams!

More human than it seems--

Skin bursting at the seams!

Hear the roars!--Hear the roars!

The self-inflicted sores--

See the white, feel my bones,

Hidden in luscious moans.

Oh madness delicious

Sweet madness be mine!

Mad screams and dreams vicious

Lord--Oh madness divine!

Reviews

[H.L. Cerveise]

Such good imagery, very good.