Artistic claws carved into walls of

Penknives stabbed into the ground

His mother screaming "mercy"

Stars collide into bursts of crimson

Satanic constellations fade into skin

Lucifer's cry stains his heart

Metallic paint coating burnt doorways

Ice cold windows shrouded with haze

Showers of fiery rain upon rooftops

Fate forsaken like humans destined to suffer

Time twisted like an eternity of radicles

Souls intertwined like putrescent swamp roots—

Even death can't tear them apart

Waves of paranoia inundate his mind

Drowned-out voices re-emerge from the grave

As dark innocence plagues his pneuma

Piece

By

Piece