Howling Blaze

07 Jan 2006

·Dawn

This unremitting torture Rips the sinews of my soul It takes me, drawn and quartered, To the deepest, darkest hole Then drowns me in a black fire, Gives my eye to ghastly glaze, Sends my senses to Damnation And the noxious howling blaze Such cruel, incessant terror In the cauldron coals of Hell Is the punishment for looking Past the grating of my cell Thrust a dagger into my fool heart And give the gruesome twist, Start me plummeting to mortal fury Through the howling mist

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Dawn

Started writing poems at age 14, lyrics a lot later and am still doing both to my astonishment. Along the way I wrote a couple of novels and they are published by Amazon. I am gloriously happy in my marriage, after 50 years and I am relieved to say...

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