Barbarian

Ligaments

And limb by limb

Fresher air

Intimate

Caught in actions

Adrenal

Flying Colors

Bleeding down

Pressed against the night

Swallowing

Without self-control

Gasping in prayer

Out of straws to grasp

I lower melancholy strings

To melodies I dance

Hung like marionettes

Growing discordance

Glowering Moon

Spread with a vengeance

Never singing out

Made of tougher stuff

Stones out on the wall

Bones of giants lost

By a Philistine repaired

Such elegant music

Hunting the twang

Memories, movements

Stringent refrain

Passions regretted

Fantasies forfeit

Of how I'd live a life for you

Infinite

Hoped you'd make me an offer

Fangs bared and skin on fire

Reflections stretched

Like the setting sun

Now I meet the rising

Wishing I might burn

Needing a new learn-set

No initiative to move

Crying out for evolution

Thumbs pressed

And yet

My tail still wagging

Tucked between my legs instead

Wishing for the hunt

Never to be released

Never to be loved

Is this what I wanted

Smoke signals to myself

Lost far from eternal

Digging holes

Layered up

Sweeping fever

Chasing but never caught

Terminally Shia

Etymologically stunted

Emotionally bunted

Six legs in the dust and

Entomologically busted

I guess it still bugs me

Wishing to be of service

Now just wishing

Barbarian undeserving

Pitchforks and torches

Thunder and fury

Caught in nostrils

Petrichor

A memory of a love

I have to give away

And yet

Tail still wagging

Meet me here

With fish-eye lenses

I'm wider than you know

Bent but never broke

Smoking out these shadows

I'll find a way for losing

Wishing to be of service

Now just wishing

BARBARIAN

Art is AI Generated via Wombo Dream App