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Part 1, Falling Phoenix<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hear me like a siren in the night<\/p>\n Fear me like the silence in the light<\/p>\n Sear me red as a demon\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n Black as a sinner\u2019s heart crucified<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Save me from my ugly death<\/p>\n Scream our names with every breath<\/p>\n The worms of a bloody destiny<\/p>\n The terms of a molested vasectomy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n God prays to human thralls<\/p>\n The moon still calls universal halls<\/p>\n Orchestral rehearsal impersonating hatred<\/p>\n I wait for something less than sacred<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Save me from my seraphim heresy<\/p>\n Marry the miscarriage in a cathedral of shadows<\/p>\n Shells are still hallowed, hell is still waters<\/p>\n Bells are lingering will, calling, infringing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Part 2, Human Drum<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n From the beginnings of my sabbatical religion imprisoned apparitions<\/p>\n Halleluiah speaks the blackened wildfire through the coals<\/p>\n My silhouette walks a lonely road<\/p>\n My shadow lives alone, upon an ashen throne<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cast-iron hope, vast maniacal interwove<\/p>\n Interloping the exodus of my bedlam<\/p>\n Resonating chills of umbilical guillotines<\/p>\n I rasp the vermillion before I turn to dust<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even shadows yearn to rust<\/p>\n Every battle burned to husks<\/p>\n Bones that rattle in the cusp<\/p>\n It fell right through, no matter how hard I clutch<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maybe I was human once<\/p>\n Before the past of kingdom come<\/p>\n As I played my taut skin drum<\/p>\n And thumped my heart dried out by sun<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Part 3, Reapers’ Choir <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fearless blighting silenced by the bright<\/p>\n Blackened wildfire is our bloody destiny<\/p>\n Witness the present I gave you, the gift of now’s hatred<\/p>\n A memoir to hell’s gospels, apostles of gangrene graffiti<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anchored to infinity’s limericks of photosynthesis<\/p>\n Alabaster dreamcatchers drafted from the rafters of my decapitation resurface<\/p>\n Psychedelic evangelicals with antennas tethered to Armageddon’s herses<\/p>\n Etched in crimson fingerprinting hieroglyphics on dunes of moonshine’s crucifixion<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Transfixed on stagnant ammunition glamourized by tattered battle scars<\/p>\n Anguish fragrant ramifications reanimated to die again for you<\/p>\n Patterned asterisks eradicated for your demonstrated pleasure<\/p>\n Disconbobulating autonomous abominations unsevered in their vengeance<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unsympathetic mementos, or heaven’s sentinels<\/p>\n Wendigo’s of embryos, or bombs of Godless<\/p>\n Pulled apart like clouds, the alcoves of megalomaniacal<\/p>\n Devils falling down like the sky were a house of cards<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Feathers, crowns, talons, chords, fortified mortification<\/p>\n Angels in the ground, cloaked in ashen doubt<\/p>\n Reign within the doubt, spit the crucifixions howl<\/p>\n I’ll rip you free from Salem, trailblazing bloody mayhem<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You made me like this<\/p>\n Seized my heart, raised me flightless<\/p>\n You praised me scytheless<\/p>\n Preached the Reapers’ Choir, braided lifeless iron fire<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Intertwined with the ripe ripped fruit<\/p>\n Withering seraphim lost in youth<\/p>\n Hard childhood, violated environment<\/p>\n Charred wildwood, carved to be vile, warped<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part 1, Falling Phoenix Hear me like a siren in the night Fear me like the silence in the light Sear me red as 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<\/p>\n![\"'Guardian'](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Guardian-Poster-by-nipuni.jpg?resize=382%2C550&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n![\"Sol](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sol-Amstutz.png?resize=500%2C649&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\nCredits to these artists: Alexander Novicky, Bailey Mccoy, Sol Amstutz, nipuni<\/h6>\n