Poison in the Snow

Poison in the Snow

For a second there I let you slip in, the infection of hoping

Like an addict for an interminable frailty

This being human in a universe of robotic programmed responses

Rejected through digital clicking assumptions

Flogging the back of memories I wish I could crack

In egg yolks over this basket of failed hopes, bake up a confection

To spread the sickness to the masses and leave me here alone

Android pattered and mathematically tragic

To alienate this will to keep rowing this canoe of emoting

Out for a wish, a balanced beam on the air crisp

Like baked bread a friendly offering across a table of crossing

The line between ignorance and bliss, a battleground of recompense

To amend for fettered air of uttered words and whisper stares

At a blank ceiling to a dry-erase God for hope back like a bar of soap

To clean smog in comic-bubble dialogues of despair

Wash the stark nature of these requests for repair

Estranged and lifting please take off this blindness with your spit

Expectorate my need to contemplate, expiate my unseen sins

And let me begin anew, like an embryo based on two

Divergent paths one child to raise, the other slain before the grasp

Burdens and blessings and love like a plain crashing

Off in the city side of where I can not go two worlds and

I chose the poison under the melting snow

Wine of taste and all to waste, hemlock in the time clock

Expired and a murder on a wire watching and descent

Crows pecking the vision of a man who never meant

To hurt a soul and yet is a killer of lies not deserved

I have to earn a pass to raise the mast to ever have a chance

To know this life it has and has not passed

Looking at this monster, vaccinate this human

Make whole in this metallic role, un-feel and make cold

You heckling bastard hope