Blacker

Blacker 5/1/2012 By Rob McManus

The future happens fast

At a high rate of speed

Flashing by at an instant

Until they blur

And melt away.

Pieces spin in the air

And disappear in the smoke

As a cloud of blood

Explodes everywhere. 

Glass and mirrors become a mosaic

As metal burns metal

Grinding and twisting

Until nothing remains. 

It only takes a second

To change everything you know

But help is always

Minutes or hours away. 

Projectiles fill the air

And rain sideways

In sheets

Like an iron waterfall

Of hot gray lead.

Another day

And another night

Slowly dying inside of myself

Used up and thrown aside

With tubes and needles

Everyplace and everywhere. 

The quick and the dead

And the good and the guilty

At high noon in America

Inexplicable and horrific.

Sweating and shivering on the couch

Without any hope at all

Unable to go on

And unable to stop

In a night of a hundred deaths

Not far from here

You may never know

What it feels like

To call out for help

And get no answer. 

To plead for mercy

And be cut off at the knees

By the cruel and unmerciful

And left to die in a ditch.

Let the sun burn away

And the wounds bleed

Festering and throbbing

In the cold dark sun.

My heart is black

Blacker than black
Blacker than the suit I wore
When I said goodbye
Darker than the midnight sun
On the other side of the world.

Squeeze shut your eyes

And cup your hands
Over your ears
To forget the day
And sleep in a hole.

Dream a dream of perfection

Because that is all you’ll get
Nothing but a ride down a highway
In a long black car.

Spin your wheels

And try with all your might
But you can’t get far
If someone else
Holds the keys.

Tell the pretty women

To all leave this place
Because I can’t look anymore
Without dying. 

Tell the fools and the liars
That this dead ender is done
Because I have had enough
For a hundred lifetimes.

I am coming for them

In a single minded fury
With nothing left to lose
And the whole world to gain
Black as night
And black as death.

I am the pale angel
With a heart of blackened iron
As I take up my wings
On my way to paradise.

I shall come down
Faster and faster
With the air stinging my face
Coming home with furious anger
Stirring up hell
In a cloud of dust.