failure in the fifth

  once the storied seal was severed;
  the floodgates released;
  a penitent soul began combing
  wreckage for her lost mind
  whose trek toward normalcy halted when
  the last sane script aborted.
  beyond the windswept shore,
  beneath the carrion skull,
  she wept as you handed her the final ultimatum
  with her head locked in place,
  eyes downcast, diverted
  afraid to meet yours…

  the ebony eagle eyed her white, white skin
  transparent within sheltered coves
  covered with windblown sand and ash.
  her naked frame shivered in dread as
  she awaited annihilation – banishment from
  the kangaroo kingdom…
  age marbled her mind and grayed
  her sallow features…her concave chest heaved
  with each sharp intake of toxic air…
  the poisoned gasp of unrelieved anxiety;
  she awaited your final words…
  finally recognizing them as you spit them at her,
  “you have proven to be unworthy…”

  the words pierced like knives and severed her soul…
  pointing your rigid finger, you twisted the point
  in deep, relishing the intense pain revealed
  in her quivering mouth and wet eyes
  “you disgust me with your needs,
  your desires, your constant whining
  about love and tomorrow when you
  know nothing about either…
  your body is imperfect, your mind is
  specious, you mean nothing to me…”
  with that you grabbed her hair and dragged
  her to the exit and shoved her outside;
  she tripped and fell on jagged rocks;
  her hands and her knees began to bleed
  as she got to her feet and looked back
  she expected to see you staring at her with your dead eyes…

  but you were not there…you’d turned into stone,
  black and lustrous set against the raging sea;
  the ocean spray foamed around you as swirling
  eddies pulled you loose, your large bulk finally
  sinking under the weight of your convictions…

failure in the fifth
prism gates
ja allen