From a frayed thread to a fitted noose

[brandnewmessiah]

It’s 5 Am and I’m mourning
The death of a day without a prayer
On my way to the grave and I’m scorning
That you’re the star in my nightmare
The play in my mind is my suffering
You act this part on dirty knees
Tipping back the head and your smothering
Inside these arms of my disease

And will you run, so fast
You fall upon the beating of your heart
How long will you last
When your pursuit of happiness just falls apart
And you scavenge for scraps in the trash
To piece back together a torn soul
Within each desperate stitch of a gash
Is one step closer to becoming whole

The needle tells a friend
I’ve got your life in my hands
Be still and I’ll help you to mend
By closing up what they demand
As the perfect life behind sad eyes
They hide their pain to keep you down
And it’s easier to give in to their lies
A last gasp while you drown

And will you fall, so far
That you’ve run out of dreams to believe in
And the scars on your arms
Show how comfortable you are in your own skin
There is ugly in me you see
But even more inside of you
I bet we agree to disagree
That I held the nail while you turned the screw

I flew on burning wings
I bled you everything
When will you break my heart
I let you pull the strings
In the love of my killing
Maybe it was broken from the start

[anirbas]

Dratted hellacious hellfire and damnation poeming...
I've read it four times, now...And that's all I can think of to say about it, Messiah,
after each read, my mind is scrubbed clean save for those words...
Dratted hellacious hellfire and damnation poeming...It just is...
Excellent twisting of cyphers, phrases and emotions...Like scraps of flesh, left hanging
from a splintered cross, blowing and twisting in the wind, is this poem...Sabrina.

[rrw]

There is a beautiful dark tent to this sort of bleak love poem... Some great phrases all throughout but "The death of a day without a prayer" is just hauntingly gorgeous! Great job, Brand. Goes straight to the heart.

[DavidMc]

There's a great beat running through this poem BNW along with some terrific writing. It would really be unfair of me to single out any particular line, as the piece works so well from first to last, but I do especially like the last four lines of the first verse. Awesome contribution.

David