J David Photography - What Price Pride

 

What Price Pride

 

I am that which cannot be described.

Passion flows from heart to mind,

On wretched river it does wind.

Give me strength to continue my ride.

 

I do wage war on the banality of life,

My hands are bloodied, eyes pure no more,

Bellowing at fate, I am the Whore.

I draw my sword to insurmountable strife.

 

I watch, repulsed by the passers by.

Streaming through gothic scenes,

Drones of complacence, I will not redeem.

Hear the ghosts of righteousness as they sigh.

 

I hate them; they are pillars of apathy.

They stand, blurring my landscapes, blocking the sun,

I will, gasping my last breath, prove that I am the one.

By the pen or picture they will see.

 

I will sacrifice, cloaked in principle.

The Angels hold my dreams,

I am lost, abandoned or so it seems.

Amidst a lake of aspirations, my hope but a ripple.

 

I own the secrets I have kept.

Imprisoned are they in my soul,

Holding desperately my convictions as the thunder rolls.

For too long I have not slept.

 

I love the simplicity of the rose.

Understand me, she absolutely does,

What is now, cannot ever be, what was.

Birth of the new is now my repose.

 

Mundanity and mediocrity I will not abide.

To claw to the middle is not my intent,

Inspiration, I feel, must be heaven sent.

I was, I am and forever will be…Pride.

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