Friday, April 15, 2011

Dark encounter

Night falls, and failure
lurks in the shadows,
faceless yet familiar,
its dragon voice a chorus
of all the other voices
accusations from your past,
insidious whispers
insinuate, or snarl --
you can't, you won't
you never could
you always, and how could you...
Pay no attention
to the dragon on the throne:
pull back the curtain
poke the skeletons
let the bones fall helter skelter
on the ground of being.

2 comments:

Joyce Wycoff said...

Oh how you make me want to dive into Photoshop and play! The dance of words and image here are a powerful pull.

Maureen said...

So much in that image, and the combination with your words is, as Joyce says, a huge tug.