Melancholy, Serenity (I would weep)

Melancholy,

Sadness the rift-

Hanging inside

My withered chest

In all the places

Veins tangled blue,

The roadways where

Blood and vital viscera

Connect to where

A heart should be.

I would weep,

For the emptiness

In me.

I would weep,

Until tears blind,

Couldn't see.

I would weep.

Serenity,

Lost and languished

In miscreant words

Spilling from serpent

Tongue in little poisoned

Drops into errant ears;

All the lies you're all

So desperate, so goddamn

Ravenous to hear.

Steel blades, liquor and pills

All glint in the moonlight

Soft and full of promise,

To depart this mournful world.

I would weep,

For what I've become.

I would weep,

For what I might be.

I would weep,

If tears were still

Bound in the blood

Of man little more

Than naked beast.