Pendulum

Arms and limbs grow numb,

as the air turns cold.

Lazily it falls,

sliding from above.

Wrists struggle in ache,

nasty, evil clasps!

Your hopeless mouth shrieks,

as destiny moves down.

Slicing back and forth,

slow torture of death.

Such fortune, the heart,

collapses in fright!

(c) Phoenix Montoya @October 2, 2010

Elisha

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You lay sleeping, my Elisha.

How your serenity touches me.

Mine for all eternity-

your heart, your body.

Made for each other my dear.

My lips for your kiss,

your face for my eyes.

Forever, my Elisha.

You had been blinded to see,

to refuse my love.

My utmost remorse,

but to strike your heart… a must!

Rest now my Elisha, my love.

We shall live together, forever.

Your cold body in my couch,

your heart… in my jar.

A poem inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Tell Tale Heart’.

(c) Phoenix Montoya @ September 26,2010