Shadow Behind the Bottle

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  1. Andy73

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    behind the bottle
    stands the dark shadow of my mind
    in the nude and drinking whiskey
    wasting so much time

    crawling thro the fumes
    bruised and clouded
    I swim into the floor
    & the bottle shatters, mirroring the fragmentation within, I scream from an expanding pool of whiskey in a slow motion haze, my boots knock on wood and my hair writhes half submerged in whiskey, the vacant winds of night crawl through the door I lap the whiskey from the floor

    behind the bottle
    stands the dark shadow of my mind
    in the nude and drinking whiskey
    wasting so much time --

    an oblong oblique perspective, a wretched glance within
    a burnt psyche

    rings of thoughts
    pass thro' a mirror
    reflecting dark
    inner torture --

    who will place boundaries on the hell within?

    these horrors of the mind
    lost in time
    a monster of self
    a drooling wound
    which time must heal
    or destroy

    the terror within devours me
    sucks out my insides --

    vague twilight shadows, faint nausea, dull purple glow drips from the sun's last light and into the sick splintered caverns of my growling stultified mind, wicked blackness, impenatrable void of being, the crushing alarm of this existence, a mealy squirming monster raging within this broken soul trampeled by dusk and night and inner persecution

    throbbing
    the floor cradles my skull
    mute and sinister, the slow evening breeds layer upon layer of thick psychic insult, death within, deep clinging protracted confusion driving hooks into my soul from within a darkness within a mirror within a mind within a bottle

    sick trembling
    dead brain ghosts arise
    stabbing the heart
    the midsection
    dissecting
    strewn across a worm eaten landscape I look through the window closed eyes
     
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