Product Details

ISBN: 1424175038

ISBN-13: 9781424175031

Format: Paperback, 88pp

Publisher: Publish America

Pub. Date: June 2007

Average cost: 14.95-16.95

REVIEWED BY: Candance Horton

Twisted-ly Dark and Nightmarish, Reflections of a Dark Soul delves deep into the dark side of the human experience, taking on such topics as genocide, slavery, religious, social, and cultural hatred. The author brings to bear a look into the mirror for humanity to see the path we’ve headed down, while bring forth a nightmarish landscape that only the most twisted of horror writers could come up with, in what could be a new trend for writers of both the horror and poetry genres. Not since Dante, and Milton have I seen terror of this caliber from a poet a must read for any fan of the macabre.

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Stuck in my head

Infecting me

Twisted and dirty

Hated

Digging your claws into me

You can’t let me go

No, no

Not this again

Staring into me

Caught in the pools of my soul

Digging into me

So much deeper

It couldn’t feel better

Tearing at my flesh

Ripping me

Away from me

Until you find what you seek

Staring into me

Caught in the pools of my soul

Digging unto nadir of my filth

Tearing at my flesh

Hooks like talons buried in my soul

Scratching at my mind

Pulling at the darkness of my heart

Drawing me hither

I’ll never bleed for you

To be the feast for your roaming demons

Searching

Seeking me out

Lying in wait

I pray you search harder

Seek me farther

My sin awaits your service

Forsaken knowledge on the breath of my tongue

Scarring me from within

Never to return

From the far side of normal

The worms of your filth

Wiggling around in my gut

You’re the filthy little maggots devouring my soul

With your eminent touch

The breath of what must be

Loving my suffering

Wanting it to be yours

Craving the agony of the flesh

You’re so unable to emulate

Loving the hate in my eyes

Turning your soul to black

Like demons breeding

In this dark sepulcher

Controlling me

Controlling you

Defeated

Forsaken

I’ll devour you all

Wasting them unto nothingness

Leaving only the venom of your hate

To sear the wounds of victimhood

In the eyes of the innocent

With the pleasure of our twisted agony

Is it your own weakness you hate

The petty differences

Compared to mine

How can it matter so much

When the scars left behind are the same

Our world divided

Our children to be left behind

Left with nothing substantial to hold

As our hate divides us

Our hope can bind us

Look into my soul once more

To find the truth you seek

Young and old dying alike

In the maelstroms

Of celestial ire

When the venom of hate

Awakens into our lives

And the demons of apathetic ignorance

Dominate our hearts and minds

Then there’s nothing left to find

Burning ire

Scorching everything endowed

Like a forest fire on the rise

The worlds turned to ash

Dark rage building

Grotesque images fill tortured minds

Visions of a shattered and twisted soul

So tired of being told that I’m loved

Only find only more lies

Only to find the cursed

Chewing their cud

In the metal fields where they lay

Themselves to waste away

Forgetting what they’ve been

Love used to come so easy to me

Now hate and loathing fill that void

Emotions once mute

When but a cub

Now the masters of the spirit within these walls

Darkness comes to save

Now a fortress of sorrow

With just the ruined lives

Of the ones you’ve touched

To keep my company

Now just the dead to keep the tenderness

Of your touch

Masochism forever now our companion

Of sadistic pleasures

And schizophrenic dreams brought to bear

Without any thought of the suffering

To come whence they came

Unto me

So many wound

So many scars

Lay in wait

So willing

Yet so unable to replant

The forest of our souls’ gift

Lost in the maelstroms of ending times

Stabbing pain

Hate

Deep inside my burning soul

What I did to deserve this never-ending pain

With my apathy

I embrace that madness given unto

The world with carnal pleasure for all

But none enjoyed

Taking it for my own

Paranoid pleasures

Flesh to strip

Undressing of the innocence

Twisting the mind

Until the souls are all turned asunder

Taking in all the hate, we’ve given

We return to the sins of the flesh

Making pain our pleasure

Open the door

To let out the demons buried deep inside

Patiently waiting to devour you

As your sins build up around you

So the walls of sin bind you within

And there’s no escaping our prison of satisfaction

This is the hell we’ve long made

You cut me free

Tearing away the mask of flesh

Left me there to bleed and die

Now the door opens

So your soul can be with mine

Embrace this insanity

With schizophrenic dances in your mind

Take in this madness

With dark pleasure

Feel my suffering

Let me devour you

And we can be once more in the lake of fire

Whence we were born

Darkness return to me

Hate fills my soul once again

Blackening my heart

To leave me only the night

"Violence comfort me"

My prayer

As the hate I’ve held for so long

Spreads consuming all in its path

Devastating

Destroying all beauty in the world

Walking about in the shadows

Moving openly in the sepulcher of another soul-chilling night

In the hate-filled world

That I have poisoned

Spreading the vile filth

Born within demented minds

Eating away the fabric of society

With dirty little maggots of hate

And deviant pleasures of the flesh

Until all is laid to waste

And the demons from within are roaming free

Enslaving you and the rest of humanity

Guided to the bloodbath

So they’ll devour you like cattle

Hope for you is lost in this world

But in the end, you were hopeless

Worthless just likes the rest of humanity

Nothing more than food for the taking

Flesh for the breaking

So what was the point to your life

You were never anything more than a slave

To masters that you will never know

A god who in his ignominy has forsaken you

Leaving you to the demonic parasites that drain your soul

And chew the cud of your flesh

SCREAMING

Tearing at

Hair

Flesh

And bones

Down to the soul

Shattered visions

Twisted illusions

Hating the world in which you know you dwell

Tattooed white trash

Sin cities

Burning

In their hell

Defiled

Raped

And blasphemed

Justice is no more

Your reign at an end

And mine begun

Let loose the cries of the many

Tortured

Striping away the flesh from bone

To see through into yourself

Pure agony

The beautiful suffering

Ah the glorious pain

In which you thrive

Sins of the suffering flesh

My pleasure

In this place where hell hath no bounds

Your black soul so stained

With sin and hate

Filled with poison

Trapped in this our prison

Where it is, we rot

The maggots of time

Never ending

Sorrow

Again another soul to the fray

With sins for which you’ll pay

Scars covering scars

Shadows within shadows

Whispers in the night

Monsters under the bed

All calling out for me

Begging me to

"Come home"

"Join us"

"Be one with your nightmare"

Twisted images

Meandering through shattered minds

A hellish kaleidoscope of demented visions

Words

Twisted lies turned into truth

Grotesque and vile

Little maggots of hate eating their way within

Infanticide

Genocide

Decay running rampant

Hellish nightmares

The reality of the moment

Delusion

Reality

Thought under our control

Violence a way of life

The end so near

Or is this only the beginning

Scars cover scars

Shadows in the night

Monsters whispering from under the bed

Calling for me to give them life

Calling for me to be one with the hate

Flesh torn from bone

Needles digging deeper

Chains yoked around my neck

Pulling me deeper into this hell

On the razors edge

Answer their call

I am their slave once more

Sent to rule

Among the sheep

Leading them on bended knee

To their demon lords

To the eternities of suffering that waits

The rotted souls of the twisted damned

Devastation fills the land

Forest burning

Cities asunder

Rivers of blood

Fountains of death flood the world

Pestilence

War

Famine

Death

Ride high on the four winds

For my pleasures

Children crying for their dead parents

Blood runs thick in the streets

Debased and alone wandering through the world

There’s nothing left for you here

Find some place to hide

Build a wall around your heart

And fortify your soul

Before you venture out alone

Seduction your only weapon

Sex a means of survival

Drugs the key to sanity

Believe the lies you’re fed

The truth’s too hard to swallow

Sorrow the word of the day

Violence and hate the filthy maggots of society

Eating away at everything in its path

Demons within are ready to spread their leathery wings

Taking flight

Taking control

Pushing us further into nothingness

Granting only our darkest fantasies

Feeding on the things, we hate most about ourselves

Leaving nothing of us behind

The cattle led to the chopping block

Sold for next to nothing

As the streets run with the blood of the increscent

And all is laid to waste forevermore

In the end

Is it worth it

This path to hell

You took of my flesh

Another sacrifice to the legions

Cut away

To leave it exposed

For all the world to see

This sickness I bear

Twisted images

Of decomposing fields

Of the never-ending dead

Arms and legs strewn about

Gray rotting flesh

Bitten with that terrible stench

That only the dead could have

Maggots and flies feasting on us

So leisurely

Left here chained to this fucking wall

Bonds growing tighter around my thoughts

Just let me go

Keeping me here

Another meal for you unending appetites

Enjoying the hurt, you’ve let loose

Enjoying the hate, you give

Wanting

Delusions

The pathos of sin

Well, fuck this shit

Fuck your world of lies and hate

And fuck all of you

Because with you I have no place

Whispers in the night

I know you hear my cries

See my shattered dreams

Coupled with twisted thoughts

And tormented visions

Of plundered bodies

Ten deep

In the battle fields where they lay

Rotting in the hot sun

Feasted upon

Undignified

Rage burns into ire

That sears the soul

Leaving only black chars

Of hate’s playful taste

To fill the void

But the void is just too deep

Within my withered soul

And in our wakeful lust

Only the hollow emptiness

Of the flesh remains

Demons dreaming

Whispering in me

Calling to me

"We are at your command"

Poisoning my soul

Twisting my mind

"We’ll tear your soul apart"

Then devouring you in the chaos

That has us in its grasp

At the day’s end

Darkness fills the hearts of men

Burn away the light in these dead eyes

Shadows of hate to devour the soul

Awakened to the night turning within

The shame of your past

Consumes us all

Smothering the fire of the spirit

Leaving only the smoldering ashes

Of what could have been

To placate the demons within

The door’s closed

What’s left for us here?

No hope

Happiness now a thing of the past

Hate seemingly our fate

The terrible cries of the flesh

Seared into our soul

Burning away the light

To leave us in the night

That darkness that burns the cities of the soul

Devouring innocence

Corrupting children

Burning cities

The blood runs deep

Through intercity streets

Left to die

In another field

Another rotting corpse

In the valley of Armageddon

Another victim of the darkness of the end game

Dark desires in the night

Fill the void

Empty soul

Maggots churning in rotted flesh

In the garden of the dead

Foul creatures of hell

Beating leathery wings in their breast

Feeding on hidden sins

Of dark Pleasure

Claws

Razor sharp

Tear at the shell

To reveal the truth

Of the madness within

Break away the shell

To bring out the flesh

Awaken to the suffering

The beautiful agony

Of heaven’s holy genocide

Dig in deeper

Devouring the souls of the innocent

To vomit out your hate

With unjust cause

To find a way back into

You’re sanctimonious holy wars

Where infanticides

Regicides

And genocides are there for the taking

But when your babies are burning

And you’ve nailed their turbans to their shattered souls

Will you be the martyr

To suffer unto me

The faith that has failed you

Black feathered wings

Spread to cover the light

And bring us unto the night

Corruptions

Laid it to waste

Genocide

Hate-bred infanticide

Leavened with the call for fratricide

On the tongues of the legions

The dead cry out from their garden of misery

Pleading for merciful peace

For their shattered

And tormented soul

Finding none

Even in eternal sleep

Just as they did in life

Cluttered masses

Await the butcher’s hand

Lambs lay to waste

Led by the lapel

To their eminently terminal fate

Corrupted by the rose

Corrupted by hate’s sweet taste

What a beautiful tragedy

Laid in deceptions

That wounded empty souls strike back

Take unto me your wrath

Mindless aggressions

Torture of the innocent

Wounding yet more

They sought to heal in their ireful deeds

Leaving oceans of tears in their wake