October 2, 2009
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The oppressive sun
beating down
on a forgotten southwestern town
Empty streets echo
against forsaken framework
A ghost town
I’m standing
with squinting eyes bleeding
red and watering
Dust blowing and tumbleweed
rolls as wavering heat rises
from cracked and broken earth
A slowly approaching figure
familiar in form and gait
clad in shadow
as yet unknown
Slowly solidifying
stopping in staunch stance
a hand quickly slides death
from a holster
and erupting fire
initiates thick red explotions
within my chest
I’m propelled rearward
hard to unforgiving ground
Lying still
as life seeps from gastly holes
in my plagued torso
Quietly the cloaking shadow
separates from the figure
and dying I stare
into wide innocent eyes
My son
Copyright © 2004 by Jake Olden Shy
December 31, 2008
Homicidal Words
Words spread in a nocturnal agony
Lighting on my chest, a persistent melody
Blackened by the starless night
Served to me diseased and rotting
Perplexing prattle spiraling within me
Ferocity held in angered attack
A soul split asunder, begging for reprieve
As increased trepidation is answered in violence
A clawed griping, cracked and bleeding
Tearing at my exposed pink flesh
Ripping slashes send pieces of red meat
Tumbling into the screaming night
A bloody gurgling in hissing bubbles
Within jagged chambers and broken valves
A soul redeemed by fatal satiation
Sighs a terminal breath at malicious words
Copyright © 1999 by Jake Olden Shy
