Hang Mans Hall

Oh I love this.
I would clean the blood off the blade with the tip of my tongue,
but there is no blood to clean. So crisp the cut,
the blood flowed not,
but still it washed away the pain.
Your love did not die
nor spill in vain
For naked is truth
And denial is pouring in the streets.

I would touch the fire to walk through the flame
but the water has killed the rain.
The tears well up and destroy the thoughts
that the void has filled through trust in plot
but a lack of love is no pure lust
and power plays the devils game.

Misguided attempts at squashing regret
have left the bitter in its wake
And threw the grief of hang mans hall
there is sulking in the streets
So brandish your steal, still you slit your senses
When the blood runs crimson, the tide runs red
so engrained against the flow
the pleasure feeds the pain
Oh I love this.

Reviews

[Rowan Storm]

I still agree with my prior opinion: it is vivid in imagery. I also love the contradiction. It's quite lovely.

[realmwriter]

Thank you so much...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Darkly powerful.

[realmwriter]

As it was intended, so shall it be. I can feel the fire in the rising of the rain. I can see your sorrow in the falling of your pain. Thank you so much I am grateful.

[Irfan Bashir Shah]

You are right on saying that you can write on almost any topic.........
Your style is unique in a way of its own and the use of irony and your style of corroboration magnifies the impact of your poetry..... You deserve praise...

[realmwriter]

Thank you very much. Though I still find praise most difficult to accept, I none the less thank you for it.

[Linear]

Your streets dont run with bromide but with the ink of ingenuity.........really good poetry :O)

[realmwriter]

It is in ingenuity that we find ourselves moving ever forward, for to look back and fall we find ourselves ignorant of that that we have missed and blind to that which has yet to come. Thank you so much for your kind words my friend.

[WhiteWillow]

Wow, this cuts deep to the bone. Blood or no, this piece runs red with emotion. Great write!

[realmwriter]

Thank you ever so much.

[joshua deathdealer]

Ouch. A lot of feeling here. Very spicy indeed. lol

[realmwriter]

I like spice it is what gives life meaning in that void we otherwise avoid.

[BlueDreams]

A very appreciating write :-) Nicely expressed ....

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

For naked is truth And denial is pouring in the streets..........fantastic!

[realmwriter]

Thank you Neva. That is why I write, well in part, I deny nothing. Too put thought to page and pen, is for me to heal that which would otherwise kill me.