The crash of my minds glass containers shattering Is all that I can hear behind my eyes The strong outside pressure of life’s matterings Release the long and carefully captured lies And more than lies, my demon’s mighty ire Is spilled and splashed, as if a chemical mixed With other prisoners to explode in fire […]
Author: J. Abram Barneck
The Sentinel II
Fake crumbling granite glares downward at me from wizened stone; he must surely know I’ve watched him shed his grey; wings free He’s left his post, while I have watched him go. I cannot sleep, I dream of gliding stone that hunts my soul, for I have seen His sentience, and my knowledge he would […]
One Sword
Through biting chill I grip my silver hilt, A burning cold that tears my fingers raw The power I face gives fear I’ve never felt Yet strength within defies all natural law. His sorcery saps away my hope and pride Exuding from my life the will to win But from my heart I get the […]
Druid’s End
The bitterness defeats his feeble frame, A frame that magic no more can protect, For days have passed and strength is not the same; And what remains is fading intellect. His wrinkled skin distorts his energy, And magic leaves his hands in weak arrays; No more the master of his druid clergy, His focus lost […]
Street Ghost
Dim lit streets are my only home And down their dreary lengths I roam Forbidden to ever enter a door I will roam the streets for ever more. For being a lethargic loaf I’m damned To forever be exposed to the land Exempt from entering an edifice at all Never to take comfort in a […]
Flee
The giant evil chases, chases me never slowing never stopping for a breath, a breath to live a life I flee faster for gaining more, more time in one place, a place where I can live, live a moments rest The giant demon finds, finds me fast; and fear, fear for those around, forces me […]
Fireman’s Age
He walks encased in clinging clothes A prison he forever loathes His gloved hand gives life to all Who mock him with the names they call He saved the very man last night Who turned his back just now in fright At his wrinkled burns that line his skin; Scars of the fire that come […]
Asylum Glass
When late at night he breaths behind the glass While hanging from my rafters in the dark I feel his fading blood; my heart moves fast, But I am safe from suffering from his mark. Sometimes I look and watch him writhe in hate While hypnotizing me with bloodless eyes, And from my will I […]
Ojos Cobardes
The moment can’t be stopped when eyes must meet To choose to smile or lower lids afraid A look once seen can strengthen or retreat Son ojos cobardes when eyes’ escape is made. The feigned affection given without care Will teach a fool the pain of empty fact That one is wicked when they give […]
Marked by Him
I strive to write the perfect words to praise The woman that I think of every hour, But with my words I cannot find the phrase To speak grand words with all of Petrarch’s power Yet beauty you possess despite weak words That spill from failing fingers to this page; I could compare you to […]