Vomica

 

 

A spur embedded within me burns

Vices groan from over my shoulder

I study the hands on the clock as they turn

Mind regresses as body grows older

 

In time I have made a dungeon of home

Empty eyes glued to a window in vain

Unearth every pain that I've ever known

Each one its own link in a burdening chain

 

My hands reach out for euphoria's teats

My being shackled for a breach of oath

The starving hound teased by dangling meat

The gift and the curse, I have bred them both

 

A growing distance keeps me at bay

Driven from joys I had earned in youth

My senses calloused, my hunger restrained

Caught in the web of a thickening truth

 

Identity spoken through painful words

A jury conformed of abiding foes

The hammer comes down, my fate is ensured

Down to the vault where denial soon grows

 

Bound with the likes of thieves and liars

Days lurk by as I toy with my past

I lend out my heart to be cast into fire

Strength will become of the bruises that last

 

The mark that divides a monster from man

My blood now belongs to a nameless race

Left to the mercy of hourglass sand

My pulse is slowed to reptilian pace

 

Gorged at the feet of feasting kings

Removing my shell to prove inner power

Fermented pride my suffering will bring

I exit my cell to inherit the hour