Entropy

The world seethes in my gut
I am trained to live in ugliness and
urban decay; never speaking of freedom.
You once touched us singing
dust after each lingering note
dull words dark and burning.
An indwelling ghost
faint and fugitive

I am crossing the Rubicon,
the point of no return,
like an eviscerated host.
Death, shall I laugh or smile?
I bled and I was beautiful,
bathing the Gods with stinging tears

You wished more for me,
piercing daggers of liquid fear.
I am breathing the dreaming world
painted amongst the hoary haloed saints
who will die quite suddenly
in a whispering of flames unseen.
I had achieved my apocalypse
And there was nothing I could not be.

Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; horror in its purest form: a calculated crime both against the aspirations of the soul and affections of the heart. She worked at a Call Crisis Centre befriending demons of the mind that roam freely amongst her writings and lived with a Calico-cat child sleuthing all that went bump in the night and is haunted by the memory of her cat. She is once again signed to Nostilevo Records in the near future. Her goth rock band, Ceremony 7 will be re-issued on this record label in the Fall.

Her fiction has been featured in The House of Pain, Screams of Terror, SpecFicWorld.com, The Official Fields of the Nephilim Site, SinisterCity, and U.K.'s Dark Of Night Magazine. Her poetry has been featured in numerous online and print publications, including Aphelion Webzine, Black Petals, Blood Moon Rising, Estronomicon eZine, Death Head Grin, Midnight Lullabies Anthology, Sein und Werden, The Horror Zine, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poetry, "Devil in the Clock," will be released in print in the future by Witchfinder Press.

Visit her website: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/

Please also visit Alexis' YouTube Page for visceral spoken word poetry performances: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6S5u4yX73kA1ZWGnKaEBA/videos

Find more by Alexis Child in the Author Index.

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