I RATHER DIE--REPOST

CARVED TEARS
FROM SWOLLEN EYES
FALL LIKE BOULDERS
INTO PITS OF EMPTINESS,
CHROMATIC WAILING GNASHED
AGAINST FRAGILE TEETH
CAUSING GRITS
OF AGONY AND DISCONTENT,
FOR ALL THAT I THOUGHT
WAS
IN ALL ACTUALLITY
BECAME NOTHING MORE
THAN FRAGMENTS
UPON DISTANT PEDESTALS


LIVING
WAS NOTHING MORE
THAN MANY ATTEMPTS
TO SURVIVE
GRASPING FOR BREATHS
OF LIFE,
AS SHELTER ERODED
INTO AN ILLUSION
OF BEING SAFE
AND
MAN MADE MACHINES
THAT COOLED AND HEATED
REMAINED QUIET
AS CAPS UPON POLES
UNITED...


DROWNING
IN THE CONSEQUENCES
OF DECISIONS ONE THOUGHT
WISE,
THE STALE AIR
STIFLES ANY HOPE
THERE ARE NO WORDS
LEFT
TO COMFORT
NO
BLADES OF GREEN GRASS
LIKE DREAMS
TO REMEMBER
AND I'M THINKING
I RATHER DIE...


PICKLED PIG FEET
PORK-N-BEANS
KETCHUP SOUP
AND MUSTARD SANDWICHES
WITH A GALLON OF WATER
DRIVES HUNGER
AWAY
AS TASTE BUDS GO INSANE,
AS THE EARLY MORNING
CRICKETS AND TOADS
TASTE GOOD
TO MY EARDRUMS...

ALWAYS AWAY

FROM HOME
BECAUSE
THERE IS NO HOME
NOR FOX HOLE
NO SOLACE
NO SMILES,
NO COMPLAINTS
AND FRANKLY,
ITS ONLY THE VISIONS
IVE SEEN
THAT PERMIT ME TO SAY
I RATHER DIE...
I RATHER DIE...
WHEN I CAN NO LONGER
FEEL THE WARMTH
OF THE SUN
AS I SPEAK TO GOD,
OR FEEL HIS PREVAILING
BREEZES
KNOWING 
I NO LONGER
HAVE TO BATTLE
DEMONS,
ON MY OWN,
OR ENVISION
THE PORTALS FROM WHICH
THE CLOUDS COME,


I RATHER DIE...
THAN TO WISH
AND ENVY
THINGS NOT MEANT
FOR ME
WALLOWING IN PITY
CONCERNING
MYSELF WITH
WHAT OTHERS THINK,
AS THEIR FALSE IDOLS
BECKON ME TO CONCEDE
I RATHER DIE...
REMAINING FREE,
AS SALVATION
EMBRACES
ALL THAT I AM
AND WILL BE ...


I HAVE MIRACLES TO SEE
PRAISES TO SING
AND IF I CAN'T....

I RATHER DIE....









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