Bronzed Mockery
Mile Marker MCCCXLVII
Nonce Descort
Screaming injustice while weighted dice toss,
knowing transgressions have hammer and nails.
Victim of passion suffers greatest fall,
caught in the ripples that treason has made:
I cannot help but question why,
a moment seems to satisfy,
love's spoken promise just a lie,
with alibi, with alibi. . . .
Searching for answers in death only find,
deceptive sunshine beginning each day.
Mountains and valleys have nothing to say,
so far to travel too much left behind:
Life such a complicated climb,
success one way of keeping score,
silence the warning heard before,
choice does the crime, choice does the crime. . . .
Vengeance is willing to carry the flame,
throwing sharp shadows at past history.
Recovered ashes concluding the game,
fated reflections of emptiness see:
Nothing but solemn scars remain,
translating brutal shades of grey,
coexisting with clouds and rain,
darkness today, darkness today. . . .
Tragic indulgence continues alone,
helplessly watch while corruption is grown.
Forced to confess what addictions now own,
useless perceptions petrified in stone:
Night reconstructs damned memory,
basking in failure's coldest fame,
complete another circle turned,
bronzed mockery, bronzed mockery.
-02L
Forms used:
Verse I: Blank 55 Verse
Verse II: Monotetra
Verse III: Double 55 Verse
Verse IV: Double Tetra
Verse V: Alternating Double 55 Verse
VerseVI: Alternating Double Tetra
Verse VII: Mono 55 Verse
VerseVIII: Blank Tetra
By 02L
© 2008 02L
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