Go to hell

The darkness is choking

every effort draining my soul

I try to scream for help

but no one is left to hear
 

I fail to struggle to my feet

sucked back down

in a liquid quicksand

of negativity compounded

by sticky innuendo

distrust and rumors

boiling the mix

to a hellish temperature
 

Victims lay bloody

at the edges of my

narrowed vision

fading in and out

they are covered in thick tar

oozing guilt and shame

their putrid essence

filling the noxious air

suffocating my labored lungs

death on what was left of their faces

as if a corrupt, corrosive venom

was eating at their flesh like acid
 

I can feel it eating me

burning from within

not flames of salvation

begging for a sterile end…

such are fires of damnation

we can only beg for a calming rain

a peace before it is doomed to be

repeated in our own hell

Julie

D.D.

4-3-2010