Lip ServiceA Poem by Phillip J ClaytonThe memory will fade, the experience will die, I'm sorry. A riot from lips slowly rising, sentences spoken by snake tongues.
Orator bleeding ears, a wound for the cancer! a disease for the weak! a drink for the suicide! everything dead.
Just a second to breathe, a minute to weep, a life time to fail, eternity repeating.
Take the wine from Christ, empty goblets thrown to the world, steeples bleed with virgins, the thrust of priests, orphaned babies. © 2012 Phillip J Clayton |
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1 Review Added on September 22, 2012 Last Updated on September 22, 2012 AuthorPhillip J ClaytonJamaicaAboutIn the professional space, I am almost a diety... I say that with the greatest of humility. In my personal life I am frail and a primitive man... Self-actualization is not all it's cracked up to be. .. more..Writing
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