I saw you
wand'ring
trav'ling down
unrav'ling roads
down into hell
I wondered
what would you
dream about
ev'ry ghoulish night
I'm pond'ring now
if you truly feel
embrace some good
even feel well
should anyone
engage belief
some religion
as something
party political
some eco-nomic
cryptic notion
elliptical particles
mnemonic motion
even anatomic
articulate relief
inscribing gender
diatomic memory
describing they
realizing we
deriving me
contriving thee
gen'rally driving
what we're about
but then
conniving things
take a wicked turn
spinning off
divergent centre
suddenly real brings
scaly godzilla
panic attacking
desensitized streets
incessant hacks
reforging real
into resentful
immoral everything
chiseling cement
orally seeking
more conventional
meth presents
stories of grizzle
miserable fentanyl
devoured with consent
surely disbelief
down into senseless defeat
echoing all
those demented
unrelenting screams
faking instant
advent relief
breaking instance
into broken
spoken rage
token sirens
at that stage
just making
thee and we
hide and duck
it all depends
on muck
deliberate weather
with some luck
prevailing winds
sucking and exhaling
vexing trends
availing alleyways
regaling street environs
this is where
you and we
hurriedly fall
consumed and all
by tricky hurricanes
assuming frail
we and us
hail sense
insensate into senseless
so often
we're defenseless
falling down
life's deep
dark well
I searched for you
midst all that
vagrant stuff
convinced complicit
anger degenerates
boiling into danger
I looked for you
amongst all that
street life
so much rough
filthy sidewalk
deliberately tough
so who really
is ever liberated
can one never
generate trust
liberally clever
this tangled world
adorned with demon horns
scornfully so twisted
deforms into unruly
exists truly
midst this strangling fuss
surely blistered devils
reach this relentless
reckless level
evil tripping
gripped by agony
intentional pain
that is where
disdainful convention
evil lives
somber seething
toxic remains
fire breathing
merciless dragons
pitiless zombies
chasing you
writhing demons
striving to embrace
pearly crank
with graceless crack
invasive needle tracks
retracing such hard knocks
down every defaced block
displacing people
disgracing every street
what if
purposeful evil
can't be beat
what if
street healing
will never
shall never
be complete
you see
I saw you
one might say
nightly wand'ring
turning circles
conferring with oracles
forever pand'ring
deferring miracles
circling around
that disheveled land
ambivalent wond'ring
what level good
would ever
come to lick
even smell or taste
ever embrace
your fickle drug place
take your tattooed hand
I knew you
all your graceful plans
living tattooed life
just for a tasteful dose
of dope and dopamine
you all know
fateful fentanyl
a devilish fiend
I thought
I saw you
recklessly captured
flipping and flopping
enraptured by that
operative curse
I saw you
cooperating
you seemed
carelessly down
stopped to dance
that fanciful street
I looked for you
meeting romance
bleeding defiantly
your treatise greeting
a bleeding shomance
fleeting dreams
where reality attacks
screaming pictures
heaven and hell
it seems rancid cream
stream apocalypse
fentanyl and crack
reversing all
sentimental screening
your sentient dreams
of poetry and verse
one never knows
if recovering
is ever possible
uncovering personal
discovering increments
wealth's full girth
earth has its plans
those healthy things
what life is truly worth
yet rueful street life
as it stands
demands ritual
understanding gruesome
unforgivingly brutal
lives are broken
unspoken dreams
which no one
can command
demanding witches
full of fire
conjuring strife
those rabid dog scenarios
habitually perverse
all those convictions
irreversible habits
people living things
creepily riveting
deeply uninspired
developing cracks
what desire brings
those enveloping times
we lose control
such sad dreams
plucking out our souls
dragons breathing fire
parched and pursed
chapped and sucking lips
fucking burning love
sorrowfully it seems
still needs to know
if we can see
if hope might grow
beyond all this
unrighteous strife
it's smoke and mirrors
double edged swords
cutting through
all our gutter terrors
stuttering with razor knives
our edgy vampire fears
a requiem of sour cream
dour incantations
blood letting
uttering deadly
thoughtless mind
mindless cares
steadfast drudgery
affirmed and pledged
to those lifelong errors

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