Submissions by RATSKATES

Eleven reads, no comments, Twenty reads, no comments. How dare you. We reach inside ourselves, to our cores. And express our feelings to apathetic ears, needing to make an emotional connection in our isolation. Your silence are like razors. Lost in your narcisstic world of words, you are blind, pompous and judgmental. Its all just a circle jerk to blow your own load.

Yesterday, when I was just a boy in youthful hero worship, My kind was molded by images on the screen,  brought up to emulate the big guns. Another guest on Death's big show, The influence cuts deeper than mom's knows, On electric waves the demons fly, Now could we just be bred to kill or die, There must be something else. The blame I place on myself. Behind tired eyes, the demons stir. The tears go uncried.In the box,doin time. Now that I'm grown, Abandoned childhood toys, But still, what danger have I retained? To grab the brass ring, and go in for the kill and covet the goods. In the box,...

Stranded at an airport,scarred wrists, too much baggage to carry. As you sit and blankly stare,you are completely unaware of the trail of tears you have left behind. You are an empty shell, you devised the Hell that I live with every day. Another dark day but the same old way, I place the meds on my tongue and as they melt, the torment remains. Six feet under, no matter what we do. Six feet under, they will bury you. Six feet under, the maggots will rule. If you think you're stronger than your demons, you're a damn fool.