If Charles Manson apologized...

Well you would...wouldn't you?

 

If Charles Manson apologized…

 

 

I have bared your soul in mirrored images,

swamp fed nightmares of my own imagination

Skinned you alive in public displays of toxic spewing

meant only as a tool to brand you my own

Chiseled in your skin the rantings that will follow you for life,

no shadows can conceal the silhouettes dancing in the street

 

“Lewd photos? Cyber sex?”

 

Posted and pasted on the wall, dripping with saliva

found only on this chin, amongst the stubble of

graying matter, coarse as hell’s highway,

littered of cigarette smoke and empty beer bottles

broken at the feet of those who truly love you

for… “they deserve you”

 

“Me a liar?”

 

Raked over the coals, your flesh scalds at my taste,

my lips move but truth clings to the doormat

that once read, “Welcome”, now waving in jute and fraying disbelief

Yet still I have believers, blinded by my beauty

collected on the fence line, somewhere out on a snow capped mountain,

echoing their love for me, for me, for me

 

“You see, deceit can foster love.”

 

I have bound your feet as you tried to run,

crawling for the exit, knees ripped and bleeding

as I bathe in this blood, so sweet it caresses,

soft on my weathered hands and boney caricatures

as I sit here smiling, scathing away with words,

merely ink as black as my heart

 

“Oh yes, I have a heart…lol.”

 

Civility, my new word, my new shield,

painted in freakish shades

matted and framed on the gallery wall,

and still you dislike me "despise me,"

as I wave the white flag, (my middle finger extended proudly behind it)

For as I have said…I apologized…

 

“If Charles Manson apologized, you’d forgive him…right?”

 

 

Author's Note

Thank you for reading

Reviews

[icelandicblue]

Even if we forgive we don't always forget and the memory is long. We forgive to give ourselves piece of mind not the transgressor. There are times when forgiveness should not even be on the table.

[Ravyne Hawke]

hmmm.. gone but not gone.. just can't let any of it go, can ya? smdh

[Rita L. Sev]

First I think I'd get my hearing checked, because Manson would never apologize...

Some things can never be forgiven by the people who have been hurt, and words, which can have such power, mean nothing in the form of apology when actions have already spoken...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Love it Jack. You have got the sentiment so right in this eloquent and intelligent piece.

[Marie]

You portray Charles Manson beautifully. I can't believe anyone would forgive him.