black rose (growth)

in the defiance of the conventional
i sink into the essence of existence
to live at the very core of this drama.

as a slave to relentless endurance
i will rouse the very atmosphere
and risk the wrath of endeavor.

i will experience sovereignty,
commanding the dragon slayer
without care or reverence to the beast.

my grievous offence is offered to you
forsaking forever a life of ceremony,
placed torn and bleeding upon the altar.

i will seek an understand of life on the edge,
without any contemplation to surviving
beyond its sheltering familiarity, i go..

to polarize the very heavens,
drawing the artistically inspired
and the unimaginative…equally.

shall i become an avatar
of death and destruction,
a demented object of revenge.

and in this rabid awakening
destroying life’s black rose
with revulsion and brutality.

will i turn from life’s passion,
seeking only metal and madness,
abandoning the quest for fulfillment.

seeking only to the attainment of science,
a religious conviction of one follower
ignorant of being only true to oneself.

to know nor give no gratitude to those
who seek to be granted philosophy,
staying only ruthlessly true to growth

without any genuine understanding
of self, an image only as a tribute to offer,
to forever remaining incomplete.

or will i stand before you.... stripped........ naked

everlasting…..eternally…..alone.

greg.