Life in the circus maximus
Throw them to the lions
A thumb to the throat
Excited screaming minions.
Ceasar you are the empire
A gesture can bring clemency
How far from death are you?
When the mob are finally free.
Rampaging through your palace
Ransacking your worldly goods
A world outside is at your door
Rejecting your financed gods.
Brutal a death though righteous
An influence infects a virtue
For any movement has hierarchy
Power always wins over the true.
And when all faith is destroyed
From ruin a new leader rises
Victorious, noble then conceited
Till a circus maximus emerges........

Death on highway infinite........

Hot desert highway Soul long evicted Upon a roadside Death visited. A screaming echo Haunts hereabout For darkness came A light went out. A lifeless tree Petrified almost A witness maybe? Or clueless host. Nonchalant vulture With time to kill Bored with life Death is his thrill. From his airy view A grasping hand From a dying root He surveys the land. Eyes meet and lock Gazing deep,hypnotic Thoughts are grazed Come ugly and chaotic. Wings open and spread Through my peripheral A legion of darkness Engulfs me whole. Crying out eyes open A cooling fan rotates pictured dogs playing a hand Give a look perplexed. Sight returns Shaking with cold fever Nerves to breaking point In a room I don't remember. A voice in the dark 'Well done a journey Almost complete To where your Angels are buried deep'. Reassembling this hovel From a memory scattered I search for direction From a reason shattered. Desperate to leave Passing the sweaty lizard A heaving hulk glued to tv Waiting for patronage. I flick an amount worthy Of fake paintings and grime He moves with an agility Belying his unhealthy size. A wall of heat hits me square Limply swing doors fan me Entering a surreal street Denying sense a true reality. A procession of sunday best Upstanding with gruesome heads Ignorant to their bells toll I'm the figure to detest. Walking away from faith Confident in my ignorance Toward an uncertain prize Of a gamblers chance. I head out of town A chill of shadow overwhelms As a vulture glides overhead Thoughts of confused dark realms. I follow a desolate road A mind wanders,alien Once familiar to surroundings I no longer lay claim. Bones float beside the road Parched of life, laughing A skull of hysterical aspect Poking fun in silent mocking. Visions of waking one night With dread, a journey beckoned Leaving behind all I knew Now distant from my mind. In a wilderness so abstract At breaking point, feeling used Another life exists within One so spiritually abused. Voices, though not for me Urging on this silent other One detatched, part of my confusion Full of abuse, rape and murder. My hands awash with blood I see bodies laid orderly A world brushes my eyes Teasing with understanding. Such wilful slaughter practised Flesh bursting from wounds A flashing memory?No not I! Insanity is to take me soon. Leaving behind the family Serene with the violence Overcome by a smile forming Not from my conscience. Trying to outrun this madness Veils of sanity flutter away My head burns from within This mind's rapid decay. A voice screams of freedom Collapsing precious reality, I am inside myself being evicted Upon a hot desert highway.