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

FRAIL STRENGTH

These bodies of frailty strike a pose
As the mind sleeps in liquid bliss
The blade glitters of distant lights
A rarity i would truly miss

A short hurtful gasp
and released is all will power
The crimson blood flows
from your toppled ivory tower

in this passive aggressive
oxymoron labeled life
it's thrill or be killed
but it's you who holds the knife

your ignorance of suffering
is a blindfold for the blind
while denial is the razor blade
that cuts this ironic mind

Telegram

Hello to you back in the real world.
This is your favorite fallen star sending word,
of my failed attempt at normal life
and how my efforts seemed so damn absurd.
STOP!
The tears have dried and the wails have ceased.
My resentment has reached a new plateau.
But my feelings for you have risen,
Why did you have to forget me so?
STOP!
So I let my subconsciousness slip into the dark.
A straight jacket my only hug,
My shadow my only friend,
Buried deep in the hole i have dug.
STOP!
So goodbye to you in the real world,
This fallen star has burned out.
I am locked away in my rejection,
For you have befallen me with but a shout.
STOP! Please?

Theater Of Flesh

Delicate paper lips call gently to me only to burn in the fire

How dare they look me straight in the face and call me a liar

I'll shake the pillars of heaven and turn god's face away

Even the devil has to bow to one such as me on this day

For i am the one true king of fools, a prince among clowns

The fairest of damsels come to see me crash and go down

This is a one time true event, a gala of my simple shame

The line it goes for miles to have a piece this cheap fame

A hushed silence over headstones, in the spot light a broken man

No curtain call on this spirit of vengeance, hatred my only plan

No encore of delegations only the roar of the masses in my fold

The lambs of slaughter ask not for glory, but of forgiveness so bold

By, Shannon A. Rhoten

Savage Heart

Don't stop whispering in my ear

You soothe the savage beast

You give off rhythmic heart beats

This thumping, bumping in my brain

My blood boils and i think of oils

Spread on a body of water known as you

You keep me afloat in a sea of despair

Forever we dance on air

Like love birds in flight

people give their lives to see such sights

Yet you give to me freely in dreams

Of whip cream clouds and fallen angels

Is it a sin to think of you so much

Yet i defy the Gods for just one touch

Of whispering skin and plucking heart strings

Oh but how it stings, these birds and bees

You drop me to my knees my graceful deity

With your playful teasing and smiles

So i'll just rest here for awhile

Wrapped within your warm embrace

But here, again my heart begins to race

And it all starts with that

Whispering in my ear.