Forbidden Fruit

 Enters horned desire with bowing grace

But scant regard for the thorned trunk

That it must climb

To touch and taste

And pluck from its place…

The prize of its obsession

Descends again with bleeding hands

And seeming cherished pain

With scant regard for injuries self-inflicted

Totally oblivious to the slow death

Which creeps upon a soul

That constantly bleeds itself

Comes stumbling now

Under the influence of a fleeting satisfaction

And falls

Losing the grip it had

On the forbidden fruit

For which it sacrificed its life

For the promise of vain ecstasies

And finally reaps

The Grim Reaper’s due

Excerpt From - In My Element

By - Roy Alexander Graham

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WITNESS

 …And I awoke in the arena of my intrigue

To witness the dark tales of my surreal anticipation…

A lion embracing a bear

And littering reality with the offspring

Of an altogether illicit affair…

I saw the marriage of an old stumbling empire

As she fell in time

To the capricious wiles of an enticing romance…

Whore to whore wedlocked

And vowing allegiance

Till death…

I saw the prophet led to his death in chains

While a bootlegging pharaoh and his sons

Aspired to throne after throne

Dying death after death… but aspiring still

While young lions slept…

I saw the priests of an untenable union

Inwardly and outwardly frocked

In robes that hid them from the uncomfortable truths

Of a time when lions lay down with lambs

Having crushed the capricious existence

Of an abominable union…

…And I pinched myself

To confirm that I was not dreaming…

For all around me the earth shook

As whore ran to whore for shelter…

The rock of their convenience

Having been obliterated

And rising out of the earth like gods…

The prophet’s sons…

With sword and shield… advancing

I have witnessed the weeping and wailing

Of those who mocked and scorned

When righteous men bade them

Behave.

From

In My Element

Roy Alexander Graham

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