Imperial sun
rises

Cerebral scream
fills this
two-sided room

Hail of hatred
bloody rune

We pull on
that gossamer
thread

Smile in the
glow of a
skin-colored
cigarette

Unholy
fire but
I chose to
forget

Krakked armor
my guilty
flesh unbroken
(yet)

A prying eye
a face of death
in soil
reflected

A youth
too short
for tears—
deflected

Still
I greet this morn
a day so vast

The deepest drum
shall sound
my worry

A burned up page
will tell my story—
(sorry)