Saturday, March 10, 2007

Horrible Blood Red Wine - a poem


And here is my poem. DO NOT STEAL IT ARRRRGHHHHH. THNX.

BISMILLAH.

“Oh that horrible blood red wine”

From a past life now forgotten

as my heart grew black and rotten

with a sinful essence clear as cotton

I felt myself no longer fine,


Bottle clutched, I stay there, sitting

recollecting thoughts, admitting,

there was no way out, no quitting,

the Massacre at Palestine,


So forever-I was not kidding’

I had no choice at my bidding

except to drink blood, fitting

my mouth full of that horrible blood red wine.


Suddenly, I began to recall a grand memory,

a vague remembrance I tried to hide cleverly-

But I am human, my mind burned and turned Emory

with a disaster where I was the mastermind.


It was a pitch-black night in April 1997

Boozed up from a party, I was coming home at eleven--

Having betrayed soberness, not thinking of heaven,

Or the future that would forever be malign.


I drove on, mad like a demon

Rappers on the radio, I heard them leanin’

Rode on, like their songs, but now I was even

Copying satanic design.


I checked my cell because I heard it ringing,

Far above, sat a perched raven singing

The drink, through my blood and soul, ran stinging.

I was now so far behind.


Suddenly a mass was coming my way,

I felt for the brakes, but pushed the pedal on the highway

Black birds enveloped the skyway

A car came rushing like the gushing of the Tyne.


On the vial’s skull logo, a grin was shaping

My soul grew still; my mouth lay gaping

From the collision, there was no escaping.

My God… I am a Frankenstein.


As the rats drew biting, the pendulum slashing

Darkness, frightening, “balderdashing”

Leafless trees, lightning flashing

How I wish I saw that scarlet sign,


In seconds, there was a crash that pulled me under

An echo of silence, a sound of thunder

For in that hiatus in time, I wonder

If I would make it out alive and fine.


As the twisted metal came thrashing

And the crumpled cars, grinding, smashing

I saw a teenage boy come crashing

Through the windshield and into mine.


Adding to the worst of my dismay

I heard the boy breathlessly say:


“I’m the preacher’s son. Don’t beg for forgiveness. Don’t cry.

But never sin again, for everyone one must die.

Whatever tomorrow brings, remember me, this is good bye.”

The lights turned off inside my mind.


I drove to the hospital, above flew a raven

The trees grew darker, the world had caved in

As the wretched beggars stood on the sidewalk wavin’

No smile came to this heart of mine.

The only one was on the skull of that horrible blood red wine.


Tears came down with the driver crying

I stood watching his son dying

A great sorrow I could not help denying

Started to flood my mind


I didn’t do much but muttered

Half-true words I tried, and stuttered

And nothing I did at all, I uttered

The evil and regretful line

“Oh that horrible blood red wine”


The father accosted the doctor after my decision

to cause a deadly car collision.

From the eye of X-ray vision

We knew his son had cracked his spine.


Under the boy’s skin, he wasted away

All because I had gone astray

This was to be his final day,

But how I wished it were mine


The man’s son died, he sat weeping

In my heart evil was seeping

I felt a guilty fire creeping

Somewhere far off in my mind

How I wish I never drank… that horrible blood red wine


Time flew by from past to present

Of a tower-lurker, a future peasant,

That was I-the effervescent

Man with the bottle of wine


And yet the blood and skull I hated

Became a drink of desire, jailed and jaded

Now I would love to be vindicated

Of that horrible blood red wine


I grabbed that bottle- of desire

Divulged the last of the useless fire

This addiction would now retire

When I smashed the drink of me, the liar, against this floor of mine


There was an ocean of blood, explosion of pieces

Among bits of glass, a skull now ceases

The World War inside me ended with a final thesis:

“‘Tis the end of that horrible blood red wine”


‘Oh how I saw it shine

That horrible blood red wine.’


The sun went setting,

a martian red wedding,

The final seed of sin was shredding

“Victory, at last”- that was my final line


‘Oh how I saw it shine!

That horrible blood red wine.’

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