DustA Poem by R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)Just a poem based on death, life, and afterlife.I won’t give in to to the bite of a dog’s world The hounds of hell are on a short leash Cerberus walks through the remains of Tartarus in chaotic arteries Farewell to a world under the cracked surface of time I breathe in the hazy Asphodel as meadows mandala unsettled candelabra The billowing whip of a weeping willow wisp Braiding serrated Hades mayhem of herculean peaks screaming to seabed of Elysium The smoke over the waters of the sleepy Lethe The ground dusted by the ashes of a hundred suns No pain can reach me under the mountain The hallows of this balance, the lost souls reaching from earth Underneath the weight of the world We all drown in the rivers of life Until we become waterlogged and drift to the seabed Flowing through a corroded sky of gemstone bones Left in the sands of times, dunes of luminous hallucinations I am but a dream, a mirage safe from the storm In the world above the tunnels People grow and flower in a garden of Eden Clouds linger like fingertips strumming the harp’s strings The rhythm vividly prisms the schisms of seismic vibrations The reverberations of hearts beating together The nether realms of velvet melody reach into the crevasses As the bellows of flames serenade the stage of daylight That does not reach the prison of bones and cobblestone When we sink into the dark, and the light blinds us When we sing with our parched throats wide When iron wings cannot bridge the divide And the waves of the angry tides ripple like a ragged flag Like a newspaper unfolds and stumbles through empty streets Safe from the storm, Without any way to find form in the warmth of metamorphosis Opening itself like the arms of an angel that lost the privilege to fly Running wild in the meadows of melancholy gods gone sober Testing the luck of the four-leaf clover, stepping forward In the primordial disorder of celestial decibels of climbing violins And we still play our part in the act of death Still feeling the warmth of family’s breath Left to fend for ourselves Before we walk, we crawl Sleeping lullabies of eyelids kaleidoscope into a million shattered mirrors And the lyrics erudite lightning strikes of scythes upon the midnight sun And I spin my guitar strings into a mangled knot of cats cradle And write the dark side another fairytale’s maelstrom And the storm comes upon us In the garden of Eden’s harbour, harvesting guardians of stardust Rusting percussion of leaves weaving with the droplets of sky And pry the heart from the cage, and set the spirit free from its casket Raptures baptism rhapsodies splashing capsize in the vice of a live sunrise As the eyes look upon us, frolicking, from the plains And I grow into a beautiful memory And you will sing your tune And live in a world without time Without rest That forgot the sound of reason The sound of mind, deaf to all life itself A dusty book on a forgotten shelf
© 2021 R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)Author's Note
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StatsAuthorR.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)Burlington, Halton, CanadaAboutMost of my poems can be differing lengths depending on the time you want to spend reading them. You can avoid reading anything brackets, or read it all. If you want an in-between, you can read only th.. more..WritingRelated WritingPeople who liked this story also liked..
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