Your Chance {Stings Me} Now

By BeautifulCalamity

golden mirrors,
golden pestilence..
If ever a word was written to expose your moves

but

fly down with the sound
of your feet...
your feet grating the ground

so soft,
and burning
wide eyed
like a china
doll as it leaps
away to something better
made something worse

Reflections on a 'disheartened' lip syncher,
a mocker of life..
a thief of the warmest hearts
(with the purest blood)

.pacemaker.

breathe me a breath
of artificial dust

..and here we are silent like
five pointed stars..

the tremble of the most hesitant tear as it
forms.lives.and is lost.

"oh pain, oh pain...have mercy on me pain"
screams the woman with wounds of affliction at the
diseased gates..

.oh.pain.

If I've known you, I've loved you..
I've ripped you apart..
For you teach me myself,
my actions.my words.

.oh.praise.

hold open my ribs with your precious spear,
and carve love letters into my heart
with your skinless fingers

.give me abuse, by a serpent's tongue.

for I am crying already forgotten tears

[hold]to me
ho/ld
hold please,
hold close

but dazzling entrances greet your teardrop lips
at the beginning of our end..
they greet you and you welcome them warmer than
any sun could twist

.anywhere we are thrown is where we make amends.

.Oh.Praise.

you need to wake up and lift your head
to the foggy swords in the tangerine scented
sky

for,
sunsets will always take your breath away
[but please give me mine]

and tell me your prophecies of tomorrow,
over a sweet-serenaded kiss..

"If you love me you'll let me go"

.but you cut madly.

"love is timeless"

please crush me in your purple eyes, it is
this sight/this time..

crucify me saintly, with the nails of your aggression and the fire of your
. .
m o u t h

same sounds {repeat} as morphine slowly drips into the battle field of the i.v. machine..
these sounds hang themselves so that I may know safety

this sight/this time

I scream.. where have I fallen?

N O W

.blank.
as blank as this page, I am comforted

and there is another,
I find you are a wingless desert dweller

[you had them, but I am your destruction]

..Destruction..
slowly, piece by piece until there
was no more of you to break.
then I threw around your fragments for awhile,
until you collaborated with dust to form what you are now..

I hardly recognize your face..

I am sorry, too sorry

my answers are constantly drawn back by my questions..
and when you slid out of me I clawed at my heart
. . .

I clawed at my heart
and
n o w
it is too ravaged
for me to mend
.breathe.breathe.breathe.

. . .

I will never be, but scream
in celebration
you'll have your
chance at
burning
me
. .
.

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Copyright 2004 BeautifulCalamity
Published on Wednesday, December 22, 2004.     Filed under: "Ironic" and "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: I fell into a trance as I read this. The flow of it is just so perfect...excellent work.

  • purr_verse On Friday, December 24, 2004, purr_verse (1059)By person wrote:

    fabulous, consuming, compelling piece. the (well, in a way, almost)standalone line ".pacemaker." moment struck me as the highlight - utter power in such deceptive simplicity; i thought it was marvellous done. the "breathe" repetition in the penultimate st

  • purr_verse On Friday, December 24, 2004, purr_verse (1059)By person wrote:

    stanza is also excellently effective. wonderful work.

  • Rone4611 On Friday, December 24, 2004, Rone4611 (123)By person wrote:

    that gave me chills this may sound childish, but i like how it comes to a point at the end... gives a since of closure

  • Rone4611 On Friday, December 24, 2004, Rone4611 (123)By person wrote:

    you need to wake up and lift your head to the foggy swords in the tangerine scented sky

  • Full blame On Thursday, December 23, 2004, Full blame (28)By person wrote:

    yes. I don't see how you do it..love the "golden mirror", "golden pestilence".

  • A former member wrote: lots of good stuff here....such a graceful way with words

  • A former member wrote: this was amazing i think one of your best great read.

  • OLd SouL On Thursday, December 23, 2004, OLd SouL (734)By person wrote:

    I also thoroughly enjoyed the verse Valentine quoted. You are a very talented writer. :::OLd

  • A former member wrote: imagery so exact and sharp..nothing elusive about this piece..too star-sharp yet lily-delicate. A stunning write, truly one of yours. I sincerely admire you (may you have a wonderful christmas!)

  • A former member wrote: "hold open my ribs with your precious spear, and carve love letters into my heart with your skinless fingers". Sweet calamity, my love and admiration for you just grows. This work is so wonderful. An absolute intriguing write, with detail so profound and

  • Angst Queen On Thursday, December 23, 2004, Angst Queen (370)By person wrote:

    there was nothing bad about this, calamity. i rather enjoyed it and i'll be reading it several more times after tonight

  • K_Love On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, K_Love (525)By person wrote:

    "breathe me a breath of artificial dust ..and here we are silent like five pointed stars.." Some more great lines hold on..

  • K_Love On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, K_Love (525)By person wrote:

    "same sounds {repeat} as morphine slowly drips into the battle field of the i.v. machine.. these sounds hang themselves so that I may know safety"

  • K_Love On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, K_Love (525)By person wrote:

    Ok now, I thought this was an excellent work of yours. Some really great lines here. Glad to see a new write from you. Beautiful as ever, Calamity.

  • VenomPlease On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, VenomPlease (134)By person wrote:

    Perhaps you're the only one with the right to judge your best and worst but I enjoyed this very much. Definately some sort of look inside your head.

  • BeautifulCalamity On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, BeautifulCalamity (428)By person wrote:

    Alright, I just posted this and for anyone reading it.. I know it sucks, truly one of my worst.. but hey, its all good.. either way, I hope you enjoy it at least in the smallest of ways.. .thanks..

  • blue On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    Are you nuts?!? That was awesome!! Too many great lines to quote!! I need to read this some more! ~b ...and sure, Floyd works..lol.


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