Poverty’s Privilege

All the writers proclaim

“I’ll be in a book someday

but society lays waste to these dreams

and so they fray

persistence in poverty

provides the greatest wealth

un-surpassable in its splendor

I’d rather beg for change

and sing psalms to deaf ears

then live in bondage

within a suburban prison

Cardboard covers are all I need

I’m not so much for satin lies

Rich or poor

I will die

a writerforever more

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The Widow’s Kiss (inspired by “Frankenstein”)

The thread that connected me

To a world not my own

Dwindled into nothing

My existence is a burden upon humanity

And myself

I exist simply to exist

I am absent of purpose

I do not wish to be a vagabond

Of broken dreams

Existing with no one to exist with

Is like eating arsenic

To kill your hunger

The only place that offers shelter

Is death’s embrace

And the widow of winter

Offers on last kiss

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To Have Loved and Lost (inspired by “Frankenstein”)

The realization has occurred

Like a tempest wind

That what I have done

Places me next to Judas

With in the crimson jaws of Lucifer

I have committed

A foul crime

And I am terrified of

The wage that must be collected

For my foolish Endeavour

Why did Gabriel not show me

The errors of my ways?

Superfluous knowledge

Ousted me from Eden

A place where there was safety, humility,

And where humanity grew like

Fragrant cloves

The spice of life enticed

And I fell to temptation

I can no undo what fate

Has already put into motion

In time he will find me

I fear the worst…

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Victor’s “OH CRAP!” Moment (inspired by “Frankenstein”)

The realization has occurred

Like a tempest wind

That what I have done

Places me next to Judas

With in the crimson jaws of Lucifer

I have committed

A foul crime

And I am terrified of

The wage that must be collected

For my foolish Endeavour

Why did Gabriel not show me

The errors of my ways?

Superfluous knowledge

Ousted me from Eden

A place where there was safety, humility,

And where humanity grew like

Fragrant cloves

The spice of life enticed

And I fell to temptation

I can no undo what fate

Has already put into motion

In time he will find me

I fear the worst…

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Man Made God (inspired by “Frankenstein”)

I am a man

Above all men. . .

A man that has done

What no other could fathom

For mean can use their hands

To take life away

But with mine I can grant life

To the lifeless

Or take it away

If I deem it so

Through my persistence

I have become a creator of men

A living God

The possibilities of my genius

Surpass all other epiphanies

Ten times over

Truly I have given man

A gift that no other

Could have ever given

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Blessed Are The Damned (inspired by “Frankenstein”)

Oh, how misery has

Embraced me with her

Treacherous kiss

Her love is camouflaged

Dressed with deceit

This heart is not mine

This face is the product

Of another’s sins

Yet still the clock maker

Lets my tragedy continue

To the next scene

I should have taken them

In there sleep

For they do not deserve

What I have been denied

For if a man is starving

He surely doesn’t deny food

Yet the cast their blessings away

Dismissing gifts from the divine

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