"Meticulous Articulation"

“Meticulous Articulation”

(Finale On The Grand Stage)

　

The words are difficult (now)

Where once they flowed

They are now painstakingly

Lethargic

 

What was once sweet

The loving taste of myrrh

Has turned bitter and rancid

The repugnant stench of death

 

The divine eloquence dictates

What imbrues itself instantly

The delicate ink written

Upon bright satin parchment

 

To pontificate upon soliloquies

Bequeaths the most common façade

The truth requires unmitigated courage

 

As my hair has faded

Into the silver strands of fate

I require more jaded words

Less of myself to expose

 

What was once crisp

Is now regulated to silence

A divine comedy of errors

That falls before the final curtain

　

　As I bow to the endless (applause)

I fall before the inevitable tears

As roses are thrown

At my travel weary feet

　

I taste the bittersweet memory

Of what I can no longer be

The beautiful past mistakes

The sum of my mere existence

 

The crystal clear longing

Of a hundred thousand angels

Quietly define my reality

 

Come gentle words of mine

Lay with me in this place

Where the beauty of simplicity

Is merely a sweet kiss away

 

Kenny L. Mitchell

January 10, 2010

　

Reviews

[cest la vie]

Oh Kenny,
this makes my body weep. I am praying to all the God's I know that this is fiction.
Dear man, you have beauty to deliver to us, the mere reader. Your beauty was the first I read upon landing in these walls.
Breathe... let the sweet words flow...