Explore Your Soul
do you remember?
before the veil? beyond the pale?
do you remember?
after the fall? when you took it all?
i remember
how she swept the night. rigged the fight.
i remember
when you stole my blood. left a letter in the mud.
i can’t tell you
for the chain on my heart. my pain is your art.
i’ll learn
from every new stroke. i’ll fix what you broke.
i’ll make one that’s new
one that sees me, not you.
by Daphne Shadows
Maybe when it drops down
We’ll make sense of it
Maybe not
If the sun drips sapphire
It might burn to the bone
Maybe simply warm
The ashes
Until they catch fire
If we drown in our riches
Perhaps the earth will sorrow
Or perhaps she’ll sigh
And drink down the blood
An offering to the carrion
To restore balance
Maybe when it falls down
We’ll make a foundation of it
Maybe not
If the bones keep dry
I’ll sleep inside the carcass
No one will breathe my way
By Daphne Shadows
People say, change the world with your art.
But what if the art I have inside me is tainted, the same as I am?
What if all I have to offer is twisted and soaked in the morbid and macabre.
What if the words I have to vomit, the gore-scape I have to paint, is laced with bloody barbed wire, twirling through the small glimmers of such agonizing beauty that it drips into porcelain until even the sun cannot bear to gaze upon it?
I don’t have time to sabotage anything else
But that isn’t true, is it?
I don’t have the heart to camouflage anymore pain.
But I’ll do it
Won’t I?
I don’t have any way
To speak
That is,
When you had me thinking
I was weak
Until I realized one night
I’m not responsible for your sight.
I’m sitting here telling true
You choose only to see light.
What happens when you
Find something else?
Still me
Always me
Waiting for someone
To see
But I won’t tell you that
Ah, that is the conundrum, is it not? The ache, the need to scream, to let it all out. To be free, fully come alive. To deny parts of me, well.
That’s not going to bring life to anything, now is it?
By Daphne Shadows
Maybe you’re supposed to feel numb at some point
And as the dust settles
The true form shows
Nothing is what you had thought it to be
by Daphne Shadows
All my secrets
Covered in lies
Half truths you know
The Departed rise
Hunted now – make their lies true
Never enough for any of you
Truth rages
Whispers haunt
Inside it screams
Thoughts taunt
Bleed bruises gone ‘til I can’t stand the sane
I’ll bleed them dry to destroy my pain
Shadows of sun
And crimson spires
More will come
Deleterious desires
Disregard their wailing, desperate screams
As their nails scrape and scratch the seams
If you’ll listen
The daemon know
Ignore their accusations
Don’t make me go
Here in the darkness they know me well
Quiet now; let the contusion swell
My lips deceive
The Wronged stalk
Stay tonight
Outline you in chalk
Close your eyes and pretend you don’t want this
It won’t’ burn for long; my only promise
Never mind the corpses
Kiss away the pain
Hold me tight
So the blood can drain
Murmers it for your soul in design
Whatever you do, they purr, don’t sign
Porcelain skin
Eyes keep forever
Putrid and still
Don’t want their never
But when the Gray lashes and cuts you quite deep
With needle and thread I’ll make sure you keep
Stitch me together
A monster they say
Watch me eat poison
Sit with crown on display
Let all else die, I beckon you to join me
Choose my embrace and I’ll erase your agony
On your knees now
Sink your teeth in
Breathless, take my hand
Let the inevitable begin
by Daphne Shadows
Daphne Shadows 