THE HUMAN CONDITION

Behold the human condition 
I hope I don't catch it 
It makes fools of us all 
That is if we let it 

Both good and bad 
We're born to fail 
The stars burn out 
Welcome heaven or hell

Humanity is a disease
Exterminated without a shout
A footnote in the universe
But the brightest with out a doubt

Give way for the human condition
It's always on the move
Consuming like fire ants
What do we have to lose? 

My Lady's Countenance

If you smile to wide

 you'll eat your face

but that will never erase 

how you feel about your self'

with such distaste, m'lady.

Front and center, 

my mask fits my sin

but never to tight held by my grin' 

is the way you slide

those eye in my direction

I assure you my lady no jester am I

rather the sorcerer whose 

stolen your eyes, far from green bottle flies

who feast on the decay of
your lovers admiration

I fatigue at your prostrations

give in to the anger of your frustrations

as you weigh heavily the logic of

of my flaccid fallacy

Surely it is my effort that counts in such fantasies.

Average Day

Skin crawling anxiety, jolt panic attack
Brain fire burning, no way back
Eyes upon me, shadows sneak by
More real to me now then your twisted lies
Exhaustion sets in like aftershocks
A quake of the nervous system, my body drops
Copper taste, of blood on bitten lips
Holding back truth, its hit or miss
Bloodshot eyes see everything
Especially your rolling eyes, lingering
Whispers caught in throat, disembark
Launching ships of sorrow when we part.
No leftover warm residue, not a scrap of missing you.
Cant sleep, cant feel, numb to sensations of this being real
Wishful thinking of such hopeful thoughts,
Catches me now just trying to stop
Tears flowing down a smiling face.
That slip this moment by with such awkward grace.
- Shannon A Rhoten

RAGE

I'm breathing smoke from the sideline fires
choke and gulp the fresh air of ashes
now spit the copper taste of blood
and let the gnashing of teeth begin

Yes this is my purest of sins
No I wont stop yelling, not till my throat is raw
Hear me now. Howling from my maw

Bring me down to your level
shattering glass is rain drops of destruction
Tight sinew, shattered bone
get up get up get UP!! GET UP!

WE WONT EVER STOP!
Because we don't know how

By,

Shannon A. Rhoten

NOTHING

I am an raw nerve, jerking a dead limb. I am an exposed wire, sparking in a busted machine. I am a wolf who howls to a black moon I serve no purpose other then to exist and to consume. I am the mute leading the blind to speak with the deaf. Deep with in me is a trapped dragon who spits fire and consumes the darkness. He whispers to me of breaking bone and tight sinew. He wants to cook my broken body, glazed in fat and grizzle on the very fire of my raging blaze of a soul. I am an empty shell, hollowed of a man. I am a haunted building left to rot. I am the pumping heart dried of all lifes blood and choking like a fish out of water. I am a shade of memory in your mind that cannot be seen, yet never forgotten I am the nothing you fear.

ENDGAME

The people who are fake with their side mouthed quips

They post and tweet such mundane shit

and just like too much sugar in a tooth, my brain it rots

i find my rage it just boils to the top

but i must maintain this simple lie

that snapping you in two would just satisfy

a true and dark filled need, to destroy such hypocrisy

Cant i  just have this one fantasy

I'm really not such a bad guy

but I just cant stand the lie

that you and me are of the same species

when up close your more like human feces

ENDGAME

Flash and glamour nothings real

when was the last time you were honest about what you feel

tear down others to build up your stand

look down your nose it's your master plan

such theatrics when the tables turn

always the victim as you spin the words

web of lies just to see it burn

When will you ever learn

I'm really not such a bad guy

but I just cant stand the lie

that you and me are of the same species

when up close your more like human feces

ENDGAME

If the world tomorrow burned and crashed

out of the wreckage a new one rose from the ash

it is my hope that we would lose

everything that is about you

The problem is that you breed and breed

spilling your filth on live news feeds

contaminating my water supply

cant breath the air that filled with your lies.

I'm really not such a bad guy

but I just cant stand the lie

that you and me are of the same species

when up close your more like human feces

ENDGAME

(Would you please just go extinct.)

ENDGAME

ENDGAME

ENDGAME

True Gods

I now know the ruler of this kingdom
They ask I leave his name unsaid
But I stand true to face my fears
And give salute to the king of the dead.

No ruler there in heaven
I have no time for hell
These are only children playthings
In this tragedy I tell

For Death is a true God
And his companion is Life
lover and mortal enemies
the balance hangs upon a knife

I have been graced by Mistress Life
And Lord Death shall follow she
We will meet face to face without fear
for I hold the trump card. Immortality