The Devil Writes Again

Lingering like a bad smell
you reek of my addiction. 
Stooping so low as you to try to tempt me 
with more of your devilish junk mail words. 
Words you hope will stir thoughts of 
seeking, 
of seeking like minded lost souls 
with distracted eyes,
eyes baring far away dreams
of glazed numbness   
that bleed  
from their dirty dark corners. 

And you, you know that there, in your words, 
lies the kind of solace
that can only be found in the hunger for wanton abandon.
You try to bait me with my weakness,
Well I ain't biting.

I want escapism,
the clean, crisp, clear kind
that allows me to look within 
and out,  
and not through 
the smudges of guilt and shame 
that is you 
blearing my vision.

You are....
everything I escaped to 
...and from,
the parasite that lived under my skin
that after hours of vengence feeding 
surfaces as the bad after taste of over indulgence
fat and swollen into a moment wherein 
I have to weather a storm that is 
a huge wave of tumultuous rage in my stomach,
willing it to crash the crave fuelled undercurrents or your words to pieces.

You are residual, 
you are the washed up scum foam that I will not dirty my feet on.

Reviews

[Lady of the Ring]

i am amazed. i never knew that there was someone else who felt like i did. the only difference is that i wrote about the depression that i sunk into, not what i would say to the person who caused it. i am touched

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

I am not able to single out any part of this that is my favorite part...so many striking images and well expressed lines! I felt a certain victory when I finished reading this, perhaps your composition has helped me work through!
It's great to discover your work!

[Frank James Davis]

Not exactly pleased with this guy, eh?
In any event, I--like everyone else--greatly enjoyed your poison pen letter of a poem.
It is good to get it off your curvaceous chest, isn't it, lovely lady?

[khalid]

very nicely written..it is like a poetic warning to someone who is playing and thinking games are in hand..

[Mauricio Montoya]

I can go in many direction with this piece but for me its the demons we have lurking around us we must beware of. Nice work.

[Robin Menzies]

i love this... it has such emotion..... i especially like ''you are the washed up scum foam that I will not dirty my feet on'' i couldn't help but giggle when i read that :)

[Poet Sayings]

What is the devil's fury? anger, wrath, ire, passion, frenzy, madness to the
point of expression, because these are the natural emotions that all
people feel, but it's the way a person acts on an emotion that seperates
us all, you capture the writer, the meaning and the ferver passion,
this is great work, keep it up ^_^

[Black Hole Halo]

There emotions are readily understood by all, it's something we all go through, that one person who makes us chew our bottom lip to keep from spewing at their faces, I liked this, not in the oh so gooey give me a heart way, in a cleansing cathartic way.

[GunMetal]

Always a pleasure to read your work. Yes there will be devils in our life, but we must find ways not to be influenced by their whisperings. Well done!

[. serah .]

. very powerfully expressed, dear victoria ... i remember the phase in my life when this rage would enter my zone ... and i'd have to express it ... to ensure my internal equilibrium ... sometimes, i'm still provoked into it ... but over time, it becomes less intense ... just my thoughts about rage ...