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