Battle Cries

This is a poem about relationships. It has to do with the fear of love and the loss of the one you love; coping with betrayal, and the pain of argument within the relationship. Trying not to get lost in the relationship and realizing that you are a couple with single lives. Instead of losing focus of your own life, you deal with, and cope with the pain, eventually finding yourself as you go through varying stages of parting from the relationship.

Everywhere heed dead
overtaking good through evil eyes that see
dying love, two hearts adrift,
in battle witness internal bleeding;
Whether scorned by hopeful,
spiteful, soulless, those furnishing spongy spines,
or condemned by hopeless,
sorry persona controlling our puppet minds,
truth is what matters,
we know, we fear we are out of time.

Battle cries drip from troubled frightening eyes,
as kicking and screaming,
I float into unfamiliar dungeons of night,
Upon lingering darkness,
I fight shadows for love of your life;
Stronger are sinister forces
that take your bloodied body away from me,
weakness overpowered
by suffocating seeds that sprout from down deep.

Everywhere abroad
hostility smothers a thousand breaths,
as away from sanity
my brain is casted into nowhere;
Blind is what's left
of shattered dignity from death,
love obscured
putting existence within to rest,
Battle for pride,
My life and nothing less,
Find light from the endless canyons of depth.

Paul Hickey Copyright @2012
4-27-12