Firedrake
I dreamt I saw you blindly
tumble from the heavens
Trailing curses and unfulfilled
dreams
Oh desolate Dragon! Tattered
wings on fire
Rudely cast down. Torn
from the firmament.
Smouldering comet careening
across a midnight sky.
I dreamt I was blinded by
your soul-fire
As you blazed across the
shattered horizon
And I bathed my face in
the awful glow
Of your anguished spirit
going nova
Burning tendrils searching
for the hidden dreams.
I dreamt a nightmare of
foul decay and endings
Of elder gods crumbling
in crystal mausoleums
Amidst dying constellations
like castaway stars
And of a scorching wind
rending asunder
The smoke smothering the
ruined skeletal city.
I dreamt of hot semen spilled
to the memory
Of lost loves and unborn
children, scattered
And of a golden chimera
with lambent eyes
Prismatic scales shimmering.
Radiant. Monstrous!
Weeping as his cruel talons
pierce my heart.
I dreamt of swollen luminescent
larvae burrowing
Moistly squirming along
neon trails. Impaled
Between the scorched lobes
of my fevered brain
Where short-circuited images
arc and sputter
The shimmering Aurora of
despair and doom.
I dreamt your sibilant whisper
called out to me
As I pleaded with the sad
ghosts of memories
Laying embalmed, stiffly
entombed, undead
In the echoing sepulchre
of my gibbering mind
Love's pale cadaver consumed
on your pyre.
I dreamt of mad primeval
horrors unspeakable
Of the once proud ruler
of the Seventh Seal
Impaled on the blasphemy
of misshapen angels
Crucified by the covenant
of ungrateful saints
Gasping in the ocean of
unspilled tears.
I dreamed I witnessed a
dark abomination rising
An icy nimbus to eclipse
your fiery heart
A frozen legion ascending,
screeching
And thus began the long
spiral into the madness
That sucked my soul into
the howling void.
Then I dreamt I was buffeted
by the foetid wind
Of the tortured rattle
of your final breath
Shuddering, I struggle
with your eulogy
My mind stuttering over
the embryonic words
Mewling to emerge. And
I dream no more.
(C) Copyright April 2001
GYPSY PETE
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