Love Poem: Cages of Angels

Cages of Angels

Cages of Angels



Have you hungered enough
As you lay bereft of sleep
The changing seconds in dead red digital light
Stare you blankly into thoughts
Seeping from your pours like tears

Afraid to close your eyes
Shutter your lids into another night
And hear the loveless breathing beside you

The long and mundane rigmarole of remorseless continuation
Counting out those dieing wishes
Those weeping hopes
Seethe with vampire blood cells
Feeding on every dream you ever had

How can you bare to watch yourself wither

The unrecognised martyrdom 
The unknown sacrifice
Has everyone a practising pugilist
Made you their target
And beat you back on your own split lip
Of what you think they all deserve

Broken and shattered they let you fall to the vacancies of their love

Have you hungered enough
Behind the flimsy lace of prison bars
In the cages of angels where your demons tormented you to ridicule

Your loneliness you wear as a ritual mask
A tribal dance behind your words
A crying freedom that no one has ever heard
You berate yourself against your heart
And cannot see for all their lies
The single solitary truth

Have they ripped out my love
And turned it into a debacle of mistrust
Scourged my every word with dubious uncertainty
And left me to wear their shadow 

Do you walk alone
Head bent beneath the sun
With the purpose of your soul hanging on the gibbet
The wretched forlorn and fallen weak dragging at your footsteps
Does your mouth push past the emptiness
To level you
Drag you through your sense of duty
To fruitless searching’s for some reason
Not to love me

I dropped my sackcloth of inconsequential burdens long ago
It fell with its bricks to the cemented dust
Others would have built my dungeon with

There is only one cage
The cage of not having anyone to share my freedom with

Have you hungered enough