Switch Blade Fantasies

Very much inspired by the band La Dispute.

Playing lonesome, bloodcurdling dissonance from the rooftops

Has finally caught up to me, “This building is burning.”

Still I stand tall, flames licking my boots  - my lyrical axe

Finely sharpened, and warped screaming black metal.

 

“I like to convince myself I’m not noticed; the faceless crowd

Here to see me burn says otherwise.”

 

“All I wanted was to be left alone.”

               

“What’s that sound?”

 

Set my axe down to burn away with violent dignity.

Agonized, movement-twisting rage fills these temples

“Hurts to breathe” - fey scorn seals your name

Spins right around my veins; Erase.

 

Let it be known:

 

“If I can’t have this one rooftop, I’ll strip away all that’s yours.

There’ll be no more smiles, only laughter.

The kind your spine’ll wish you never heard.”

Next building over

He lands; scatter

“I’m gonna tear you all apart.”

Here it starts:

 

Shadows; there are pits

In the back of your mind

I’ll cut-and-twist; sever

Every thought behind your eyes

 

“I dragged fear by the hair - down four miles of shattered concrete.”

Flit from dusk to - twist

Of the wrist - spin-volley

Of lightning strike silences

You wouldn’t stop, why should I?

 

“Started in, turned reason at the seams; tore horrible rending sounds in the limbs. 

Splayed dirt and ruin heaves with cracking, ashen laughter.”

Oh, you’ll find me in time

Count on your darkest thoughts

Trust in your moment of clarity-

You might even catch a glimpse

 

“-walks the streets, River's broken skull beneath his arm; tempting the dead, spilling River's thoughts.

Indifferent heat erases, greedy soil learns, it ages - there's never any left, there's always more to come.

Rodents hurriedly scoop up bits of bone.”

Now days, covered in ashes

From a night you’ve forgotten

Move like burning rubber

Fills I-his-my ruined arteries

 

“Let Certainty cave my skull in with a rusted tire iron - just so she could see what it’d do to her face.

I smiled of course when what should have been a mortal cleave always came swinging right back again.

Eventually, I’ll break her jaw, but not yet.

No.”

I won’t let you retreat

You can’t; Fear’s dead.

Why should I?

“Every last member of my unwelcome audience, you’ll see.”

 

Morals? My boot and a credit card had a word with him

Syntax?  Old man never even saw me comin’.

By the way: her jaw’s broken.

Don’t know what to expect, you can’t even speak.

 

“And here she will rise, alone amongst your thoughtless cries.

Love’s tears lost and grieving; won’t speak.

For you see: battered, beaten, and bleeding; the fire in her eyes - without seeing, has grown unkind.

The agony locked away in these shackles will unwind when she sees you.

At the end of the morning, Love, she, me started in, -”

Love is the most bitter control of them all.

Your hands, no they’re - not that small.

I couldn’t really jump that far.

Oh, but if I could.

“-turning reason at the seams; tearing horrible rending sounds in the limbs.

Splayed dirt and ruin will heave with cracking ashen laughter.”

 

Author's Note

I've fussed with this one for months, and finally just decided to post it. Some parts I love, some I don't.

Reviews

[Aiden- Aiko- Kiyomi]

Very strange and a bit trippy. But definitely dark and a bit macabre. I wish you luck in the contest