Wake

Wake

A Poem by Phillip J Clayton

lungs begin to burn,

asleep through my own eulogy.


Soothing stink of death - Insidious demon


Oh holy day - your time has come and passed,

Relief comes at last - voiceless and wasted.


Tainted life - words are hollow,

jaded screams of the wounded,

A welcoming - if only they were angels.


Drunk with gasoline - Watch me burn,

Only pain.


An offering - no cry for comfort,

gorged with envy - the blood of the dead in my wake.

Smell of melting flesh - life dissolved into smoke,

Altars stained with dogs.


House of the deceased - or the dead harks back.... 


The corpse lacks respect,

no reverence, lacking virtue - I am sleepless.

death: Flesh of my flesh, corpse for corpse,

in a grave before death - curses thrown at you.

© 2011 Phillip J Clayton


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Phillip J Clayton
Phillip J Clayton

Jamaica



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In 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..

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