Laudanum Skull - Devilment

Laudanum Skull

The shine is sipped

Then exquisitely drained

I find the grip in my gut

Is religiously pained

Borne for a spiritual gain

I embrace this catharsis

The taste of this forbidden fruit

One taste, I’m in thrall to the darkness

And yes, I guess

I’m a willing recruit

The shine is sipped

Soporific and caned

I dream the seizing of the keys

To the astral plane

Deep in this decadent sleep

The shine is sipped

Then exquisitely drained

I find the grip in my gut

Is religiously pained

Borne for a spiritual gain

I embrace this catharsis

The taste of this forbidden fruit

One taste, I’m in thrall to the darkness

And yes, I guess

I’m too eager to loot

This eve is thrilled by toasts

And the stars intoxicate me

Here in sweet arms

My heart is swimming with the sallow moon

Hearing the psalms

Her secret altar

My pen is quilled with hosts

And they foster flotsam poetry

Wing me the past

The now and then weds with the all too soon

I mean it to last

My soul is burning

I bid thee night night

Opiate daze

Takes me until daybreak

It sees me right right

Set in my ways

Utopian worlds await my coming

Living in the red in a black

And white sea

Never on the level of illuminata

Dancing with the dead in the cemetery

I’m running with the devil with the

Most stigmata

I embrace this catharsis

The taste of this forbidden fruit

One taste, I’m in thrall to the darkness

And yes, I guess

I’m a willing recruit

My marriage to the baggage of life and

Death’s annulled

Here in sweet arms

My heart is swimming with the sallow moon

Hearing the psalms

Her secret altar

A greater plan has hatched in my

Laudanum skull

Drinking the balm

She’s the painted, tainted hand of doom

Sinking to calm

My manic psalters