Gift me with the Elixer To diminish the demons from the dark side of my sun Bring illumination to the corners of consciousness that collectively flee from love Route to redemption barred by who? A scripted sacrilegious self deprecating truth? Misdemeaning and half spoken the choice it lies with you A symbol to bare , eyes crossed out with crooked awe Rusted with faith , time it gnaws From pious veins, complacency is drawn A cosmechanical cannibal spawned that hungers for all A golden dream dead at dawn All hail the pied piper of putrid persistence Permeating through the palace of the mind no prescience of a pessimist No parlay in effect to halt the most perfect crime Since when did lunacy take the hand of hatred. An unholy matrimony one most unsacred Its rotting carcass will contaminate the ages A cancer in the growth of all that meets its gaze If God is here then who’s up there A mystic cynic who dared to care Lost in transit, a path unveiled Bastard son refusing to fail ….

Bobby Halls 2019

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