Poem: "In The Waning Hours"

"In The Waning Hours"

Where the emptiness fades
and the stink of alcohol subsides
long enough for one final
blood curdling howl

The memory of the deceased sun
is replaced by the cold fingers
of restless night

Like a vulture, it will stalk you
and wait in the shadows
ready to sink its teeth
and drink the marrow
of your lovely despair

And in the waning hours
as life escapes and the blood
paints the awful ground
nothingness will rush to embrace you
like a long lost mistress.

Copyright: 2011, by Raymund Diaz Delizo

Poem: "A Desperate Man"

"A Desperate Man"

I'm falling in and out
towards the inescapable reality
that is my fading inhibition
if these words are all I have

I pray that you stop a moment
to indulge my idiosyncracy

Your mouth is a veil
I long to penetrate
yet the stars have not yet
revealed their true disdain

If I cannot possess the secret
to your womanly depths
I'd rather stay here
and quietly long for you

As the night comes slowly
to envelop my lovely pain
in her shadowy embrace.

Copyright: 2011, by Raymund Diaz Delizo

Poem: "You Don't"

"You Don't"

You don't see the pain that hides
beneath the soft smile from the
corners of my mouth

You don't feel
the regret I cling to
in my most private moments

You don't know
the hell I would go through
just to have you
to call my own

But what you do know
may end up hurting us both
more in the end

Adieu, sweet demise of mine.

Copyright: 2011, by Raymund Diaz Delizo