Flight of the firefly

Under the star clad drapes of night
Mystical phosphorescent lights aflight
Chartreuse embers glowing pale
Upon the gloomy veil
'twere in Green Man's Trance
Dancing an archaic Dance
Will-o-wisp or fairy flight
Some whimsical wanning light
Bewildering astound eye
Conjuring forth gentle sigh
Luring some merry Pan
Through chaos with a plan
Souls barred of heaven
Naught as earthbound sweven
Some nether sprite
Glowing in the night
© Jerry Langdon 2014   

Eternal Love

Is your love as infinitely
Deep as infinity?
Is your love as furiously
Mad as fury?
Then your love is real
And know how I feel
I will eternally
Love her into eternity
She is a Poem within a Poem
A homage to my heart's home
She's so spectacular
I love her
Desperately
Infinitively
Chaotically
Madly
Eternally
Can your love withstand
Time's cruel hand
When your hearts meld
Can they be held?
Can your love survive infinity
Throughout all eternity?
© Jerry Langdon 2014

No turning back

Hey you out there
Breathing that stale air
Are you about to suffocate...
Are you choking on the hate
Fear of strangers
Fantastic dangers
Cradled in your bubble
Safe from trouble
Out there in the crowd
On your own private cloud
Traded your picket fence
For a barbedwire defence
Your halo has been sold
For its weight in Gold
Hear no...See no...but spew
The evil that you do
You call it society
I call it insanity
Hey you out there
Screaming for your share
Year for year living in hope
Just another knot in the rope
You thought you seen the worst
Your bubble is about to burst
The dying sun
Crashing into the horizon
Will take us all out
So continue to shout
It's not going
To change a thing
Black is black
There's no turning back
© Jerry Langdon 2014

Center of my Soul

 Like a walk to the gallows
From the lingering shadows
I sense something stirring
Consciousness blurring
As were my feet losing hold
My knees threaten to fold
Deep within my weary pit
Turbulent geiser about to vomit...
Ghostly hands around my throat
My mind wearily takes note
Shoulders burdened sinking
Emotions chaotically interlinking
Cynical laughter from fear
A devious smirk; almost a sneer
Possess my lips in craze
Knowing what game darkness Plays
Know too of the consequences
Should I wield defences
As I take this stroll
Through the center of my soul
© Jerry Langdon 26.11.2014

Long lost

 There came a call
An echo from long lost
Always with pride
A heart full

There came a call from afar
An echo from a long lost time
A voice strange...
Familiar to my soul

A voice strange to me ears
Though familiar to my soul
Something missing
Returned home

There came a call from afar
A voice strange to my ears
Something that was missing in my soul
Taken, witheld now returned home

Always spoken of with pride
A heart full of love
That was missing in my soul
Finally returned home

Witheld from my life
Taken from my soul
Voices strange to my ears
An echo from long lost
© Jerry Langdon 2014

Cold Exasperation

I hear a cry
coming from the afterlife
saying "time to die"
handing me gleaming knife


through a crack in the sky
I look life in the eye


behind its hideous disguise
it's uglier still
seeing through the lies
makes me ill


Monsters hiding in plain sight
they are impossible to fight
when they don't come to light


nomore tears for the guilty
for who is without sin
not only the blind cannot see
I feel like giving in


I'm tired of pretending
so exhausted from defending
the wounds aren't mending
the misery is never ending
© Jerry Langdon 2014

Triangular Trap

I loved her like no other
Loved him like a brother
Loved them with heart and Soul
They made my life whole
I tried hard to understand
The love they couldn't withstand
Leading to this haunting tragedy
Which left my life empty
The passion that thrived
Now only survived
Between the two
And my circuit blew
I drove her to her mental edge
Dragged and shoved him over the ledge
I plunged them into death
Cursed by their last breath
Because I had shoved
The ones that I had loved
Into the endless drear
I now live in constant fear
For the thoughts that still taunt
And they have returned to haunt
Driving me into this ill
Until the last string of will
Threatens, so furiously, to snap
Captured in my own trap
With that love before my eyes
And their untimely demise
But to keep things true
Not sure who is haunting who
© Jerry Langdon 2014

Leper King

Want me to come clean
Won't was for noting
I am the Leper King ...
Lies; all that I hear or see
Practice what I preach
Twisted is my speech
Tread not where I've been
Ridiculed for my Skin
I am mortal sin
Everthing is my fault
Listen not when I talk
Rot upon the grounds you walk
Die by all means
Won't cry for nothing
I am the Leper King
A deceiving thought
Lies we're taught
Miracles sought
No one will; No one can
Take a stand
To meet the demand
You see red, I see green
Won't stop for nothing
I am the Leper King

© Jerry Langdon 2014

When it's gone

I can't fix what's been harmed
But my heart is armed
And it's at war...
Fighting like never before
I can feel the coming rain
Pour out my pain
I can't give back yesterday
Can't bring back what's gone away
All I know is that I loved you
And that I still do
That makes it so hard
To play the right card

So tell me
Why you loved me
Just one more time
Now tell me why you left me
And it's not worth a dime
All along I've been fighting
Ignoring how my guts were biting
Eating at my substance
Waiting on your acceptance
Guess that never happened
And wounds won't mend
The war that rages
Has gone on for Ages
Taking no prisoners
Making things worse
Only want to know why
I never heard the cry
So tell me
How you loved me
Just one more time
Now tell me why you hurt me
Like I committed a crime
Please tell me
Why you loved me
One last time
Now tell me
Why you left me
And it's not worth a dime
© Jerry Langdon 2014

Cover Concept

Shadow beast

A shadow; dark reflection of the opaque
But a shade; an obscure fake
Interposed body of blocked light
Nothing that strikes fright
Not when it is but a shadow
A harmless shade that follows
But shadows glide along walls
And do not sprint down halls
Shadows do not hunt prey
They are but gray in gray
This shade was no shadow
Not like any shadow I know
Black within black upon black
Prowling along awaiting attack
This was a vestigial remnant
Of Hell's inhabitants
A dark beast
Hunting feast
I its dinner to be
If I did not flee
Feeling my heart race
My feet spot welded in place
Wanting, but unable to run
My feet listened to no reason
I felt my toenails curl to my heels
Knowing how a snail feels
Crawling over a trail of salt
I was here, Caught
Immobilized
Paralyzed
My flesh burning with fear
As the shadow grew near
All that is holy aid me
Aid me as I flee

© Jerry Langdon 2014

Unaccepted expectation

 
You expect me
To be happy
With all the ill
Outside my windowsill
All the chaos rising
All the compromising
I feel like resigning
This world is whining
You expect me
To be happy
It's just so hard
When falling apart
I clench to the light
Hoping it will be alright
Not getting better only worse
We are living in a curse
You expect me
To be happy
With all the ill
Outside my windowsill
 © Jerry Langdon 2014

Hell's Halls

A  banshee wail fell
Breaching the silence
Of this deserted stairwell
A tortured hail of pain
Echoing without resistance
In haunting refrain
Chilling to the bone
Source still unknown
Dead silence did fall
Naught a heartbeat heard
As though time stood still
Throughout the abandoned hall
Not a whispered word
Penetrated this muted ill
I dared to venture
Of my findings sure
Some domestic fight
Behind one of the doors
That shook the walls
Not meant for public sight
But fled over the floors
As frightening banshee calls
Finally reaching my Goal
Where Time's decrepit finger fell
The cry shattered my Soul
This gate to Hell
What I had found
I never dreamt to find
Left me without Sound
Struck me blind
In these halls I roam
Death has made its home
© Jerry Langdon 2014

Not here

What is the light
So empty
What is the night
So lonely
What is a meal
So tasteless
Why even feel
So senseless
Then I fear
You're not here
To enlighten me
To comfort me
To fill me
To love me
Yes I fear
You're not here
What is a home
So confining
What is a Stone
So undermining
What is tomorrow
Never come
Deep in sorrow
I am numb
Then I fear
You're not here
To free me
To encourage me
To accompany me
To love me
Yes I fear
You're not here


© Jerry Langdon 2014

Oger Oger

Off I stride into the Obsidian void

Save a shimmer; light is devoid

The glow of the sickle Overhead

Highlighting the darkness I dread

Thousand stabbing eyes glaring

From endless darkness staring

A hermit in his solitude constrained

Packed in the leather bag

In which our true selves are contained

A recluse in a fleshy rag

I witness the oger trudging by

Dragging carcasses before my eye

Carnivorous beast gnawing bone

Depleting them of marrow

With a burdened groan

The odor of death in tow

The brute swings its fleshy flails

Towing cadavers in its trails

Sniffing for any whiff

Of prey at its griff

Bloodthirsty carnivore

Rancid to the core

While all else slumbers

The oger lumbers

Leaving the stench of decay

And I; the hermit; its carrion prey

© Jerry Langdon 2014

Under the rasberry moon

I was caressing a celestial wind

when I was holding you

Felt wings sprouting...
unfolding, as we took aflight
Soaring high
Heaven near
Obliviant to time
only you on my mind
Onward we flew
under a rasberry moon
Through crimson skies
O'er violet seas
Passing sepian mountains
and flaming dales
But my eyes saw nothing
other than your beauty
So unthoughtful
We began to fall
I fell for you
under the rasberry moon
© Jerry Langdon 2013

Wake me

My will is daunted

my dreams haunted

by the blight

that has taunted

me night for night

This vile beast

from hell released

terrorizing my brain

as devils feast

upon my mental pain

Every step taken

I wish to awaken

unsure if I sleep

then I may be mistaken

and the wounds are deep

The cold flow

of sanguine shadow

that Inch down slowly

are not tears of sorrow

but the blood of the unholy

The very souls of drear

who breath and bleed fear

whose laughter is insanity

and continue to near

Please wake me

© Jerry Langdon 2014