A collection of poems on dark thoughts ranging from uplifting, love, emptiness to downright evil. A faceted look at the mind of a person who don't speak her mind but kept it all inside. Is she a hero or a psychopath. You decide.
Contains 4 chapters that delves into the darkest human thoughts, emotional depths, the apocalypse and ends with a little humor.
Excerpt
The Evil Thought
Evil slips through a bloody vine
That twists around a seedy mind
Controlling the truth, bending the line
Talk of spells that cannot bind
There is no use, don’t try to fight
There is only wrong, there is no right
It’s less a bark, more of a bite
And you will feel it throughout the night
Conjuring up thoughts that are so bad
Thoughts of cutting up your cat
Or if you can, you’d do worse than that
Maybe killing Mom and Dad
And before you can start to realize
That you’ve been fed a bunch of lies
You’ll start to think like big bad mice
And laugh when your favorite uncle dies
When you hide scorpions under her bed
And rejoice when you know she’s afraid
Of your thoughts and what you have said
Beware when you go to bed.
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
