Shudder except to Growl

Shudder except to growl
by chance no chance
this will be a little kindness
in return for poison
On further past the nettles and punctured spleens

Extravagances of time circulating and performing desperate acts
seeks the wave and not the ledge
and what of the horizon be it any other color save your own
for a jagged piece of simple truth
a dagger a cup and the cruelties of unfortunates

On to land and not to take the bleakest sip
to higher ground and yes to look down with sympathy and despair
to spite an angel a devil must be born
on halves of have nots and whispers like rehearsed static
ask for nothing for sake of change no change

What of grace and the fleeting glimpse sometimes promised
of the far way and enviable times not so wretched and despised
It is past due and properly so
lest to whither untouched on the vein of understanding
Penance by none save the guilty

self imposed little cataract
with the fury marking ground so groundless
in regard to none but the soiled and burden
Eager clippings and desperate lunges
I wish you a better vantage point

The luxury of the damned is knowing it justly so
what of time and its sister memory
what is your motives and the true story behind
all lingers afoul and screams of fashion not fault
fickle is the base of the baseless

So through the wooded grey
meets the vertical aligned of substance and real
a morsel of dignity offered to the cruel and bloated
it is with pity and loss not hate or derision
in respect all things must be ordered to be attained