Redeemer

"Even now in Heaven, there were angels carrying savage weapons."

I

The broken promise between brother and sister strung fatally between hope of son saving father and father's inevitable death.

I

Branded 'renegade' by the first to take the title.

Physically , a fever

Forever baptized in the swelter of air made stagnant by malignant spirits.

Chariot ablaze, straddling the fine line twixt here, now, and heaven.

Never the three shall meet.



Johnny's shotgun mouthing (an eye for an eye)

Danny's bike humming (a tooth for a tooth)

Innocent blood spilled, you can (run, run, run, but you sure can't hide)



Eyes

Filled with penance, a gaze that sears through closed lids

Ribcage, perpetual furnace, chest congested of chinking chains chinging melodies.

Chang-ing some eulogy for lost humanity.

The ghost screams when I burn,

The heat peels my flesh down to reveal two-hundred and six truths,

Clothed in fire, bound by spikes and leather.

I am Danny's breaking promise.

Fingertips bleached to the bone.

(Don't play dice against the dice-maker's apprentice.)

(He always knows more than he's willing to tell you.)

(And his hand's always hot.)

I am Johnny's vain prayers.

The result of Faustian deals made over dealt decks under the table,
under the earth,
Underworld.

"What is this great evil? Who's killed us?"