Rope of Red
Snip a rope of red
it Bleeds stream on rivers on oceans
fills up to the world’s brim
and still it leaks and bursts and gushes
White of bone bourne miserably alongside
A ripped heart, torn lips, havoc of hair
and eyes shredded by the blood crows
they Hawk and clamour over
the strings of the puppeteer
wrapped tight into one mauled hand
Not too far away drowns the puppet
Shoeless, feet blistered and raw with sores
from Chasing after an unforgotten love
(truly unforgettable)
the Sparkle of jews blind the crows
one glint and they shift their talons
dark beaks dripping, feathers a dull sheen
Two and they ruffle glistening wings
Tossing rotting tendrils and souring tongues
Splatting down to vanish beneath waters red
Three and they flee on half-empty bellies
cawing Curses in hollow tones
oh the shimmering jems of vengeance
brewed with long patience and calm rage like -
the eyes watching the impossible
made possible, the inevitable brought
Smashing straight into the present
a Love lost and newly re-forged in the arms
of Another, she was not the One
she was nothing
she was -
distilled with the a spiralling descent to madness like -
the nights she awoke to the noises
she could see them, feel them even
slick of steel, red of apple, spluttering onto her
soft hands, she could not do the deed
she could not, but, then the voice drawled
he is not yours
and her hands turned rough and scabbed
she could hold a blade, she could even -
and left to age in the barrel of memory
to ripen and thicken more than even blood
and
at the most opportune time:
a wizened hag clutching the dripping silver
as it wetly slides out the chest of a dead man
her breaths quieter than the wind screaming
and beating a wreck onto the latched windows
blood bleeds blood, blood for blood
the girl, a silver moonlit tear streaking down
hand over mouth, blanketed in the shadows
darker than even the hag who raised the knife
again. and again.
she vowed. Vengeance.
and the bloody cycle will not end -
into her hands, the little scissors
its ends were sharp enough -
will it end?
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will update when possible
