Blemish

You were once a trailblazer
Grandiose author of poetic noise
A nucleus for harmonic rapture stuck
On a laughable journey to meltdown

A doomtrain spiked with gasoline
Down hurried tracks to hairpin wreckage
Road kill death machine around a neck
Fully throttled from mindless rundown

This weighted life of anguish with
Firearm dreams shot in vain
Vacant gaze and ashen eyes
Another disguise of chemical comedown

Carnations blooming out of season
As shadows scrape against your face
Demons’ scars are testament and
Reapers of your final sundown

Breathing has become unbearable
Under the rock bottom water you dwell
This downcast angel, a reminder of
Forgotten highs and waste carved in an arm