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637 · Nov 2014
Memory
Drake Brayer Nov 2014
I swim among the ashes
Through a sea of broken bones
Past the image of forgotten clashes
Broken bodies made of stone

I drown in memory
Its tepid, lukewarm embrace
A crimson discrepancy
Between now and times I cannot place
637 · Oct 2014
Fading Love
Drake Brayer Oct 2014
Soft satin lashes
On smooth velvet skin
Dark locks crash
Upon shores of honeyed sin

Lilting orbs like stars
Burning flesh away
Gentle strokes so far
Further day by day

Empty whispers gone
I have nothing left to say
Drifting towards the dawn
Purple skies are turning grey
628 · Nov 2014
Too Good For Me
Drake Brayer Nov 2014
Your smile is too bright
Your eyes too pure
You are the light
I am the disease to your cure

Your perfection is stunning
Your curves assault my eyes
My heart is running
The shadow of pride in me dies

Every accomplishment shrivels
Before your naked glory
My crooked heart bristles
Knowing you stand before me

Your gaze is rapture
Your touch is bliss
My soul encaptured
In her sweet kiss
619 · Oct 2014
Life Is
Drake Brayer Oct 2014
Life is tragic, as death is grim
The finer points of morality, all paths lead to sin
Life is fire, hot and bright
Death is brighter, for darkness eats light
618 · Nov 2014
Biography
Drake Brayer Nov 2014
A biography?
You dare speak the word?
Nothing but iconography
Simply absurd
This is nothing
But an eloquent display
Of petty posturing
Not my forte
So speak your incantations
Your brazen bitter biography
Drizzle it in honey
And paint me a picture
**Of who you would like to be
I despise how biographies and social media allow us to paint a perfect picture of ourselves, present a false person to the world. All our flaws and mistakes hidden behind a few simple well chosen words.
601 · Oct 2014
The Angel Of Rome
Drake Brayer Oct 2014
The fires burn deep in the blackened night
Soft hues shifting, everlasting light
Subtle throes of twisted agony
Sweet caresses tell the tale of tragedy
She squirms and moves, hips sliding delicately
A lithe creature from a nightmare, seduces me
A voice like a siren cries into the forbidden night
A world in ecstasy sings to nature’s blight
Wet furtive movements, soft gentle moans
Escaping from the throat, of the angel of Rome

A shrieking Harlot
Bequeaths my ears with sound
Forbidden, so tainted, her breast a shivering mound
I love her, I hate her
Erratic, writhing, torment, agony, upon the ground
Love lost, pleasure found, a world in turmoil
A man drowned
534 · Nov 2014
The Agony Of Rain
Drake Brayer Nov 2014
Oh, Agony, how sweet the sound
Of dreary tears as they pound the ground
The bitter sweet sorrow, of a breaking tomorrow
Of A Shattered Dream
Painted across the sky
In effervescent hues
Of black and grey
A seemingly endless menagerie
Of white hot thunder
Singing the madness away
525 · Jun 2015
Sink or Swim
Drake Brayer Jun 2015
Fire burns, in silent stars
Quiet deaths, echo far
A light so pure, miles away
Death ensures, a false display

Its lights are show
Its silence grim
No one knows
Its sink or swim
The death of a star and its inevitable consumption by darkness mirrors the sink or swim mentality of modern life.
515 · May 2015
Happy Place
Drake Brayer May 2015
The lonely wind weeps
On shores of stone
Immortal breath creeps
Across an ocean of bone
The silent hills cry
They’re voices unheard
Screaming at the sky
But silence endured
A quiet so deep
A death so pure
Forever it sleeps
The sun impure
The forest is still
The wind is dead
A life without will
Death has spread
502 · Sep 2015
Homeward Bound
Drake Brayer Sep 2015
Soft silk cascading down
From the heavens
Souls ever upward bound
A dark procession

Of souls so light
Gleaming angels
Figures in white
Framed in angles

Of tormented sight
Blackened eyes
Birthed in night
Their silent cries

Scar the stars
Broken vows
Echo far
485 · Oct 2014
White Velvet
Drake Brayer Oct 2014
A layer of mud, caked over a hollow can. Rusted tin, a broken man. Kicked on down the crooked road, past the hollow shells that some called homes. Down the peeling yellow lines, past the wind torn soldier pines. White ash replicas of organic times. Broken bones and unanswered crimes. Blood spilled red is caked on brown. A hollow circlet, a corpse's crown. Syanarra and sweet good byes. Black veiled eyes gazing out like dots on dies. Eerie portals, the Devil's spies. Open mouths, silent still but speaking lies
482 · Oct 2014
Do not Trust
Drake Brayer Oct 2014
I am Agony
In a broken cup
I am regret
Burning up
I am rage
Seeping through
I am poison
Sinking in
The hollow cracks
Of your broken skin

I am Disease
And I am lust
Infectious will
Do Not Trust
465 · Dec 2014
The Weight Of Heaven
Drake Brayer Dec 2014
I woke amidst an all consuming blackness
A void so empty as to be the death of light
And in that darkness knelt the giant Atlas
Shoulders burdened by the weight of spite

His steely heart was sinking
Deep into that primal black abyss
Yet his eyes stood unblinking
His pain was the absence of bliss

Entombed between heaven
And the sovereign earth below
The spheres on his back an emblem
Of the joy he would never know

His barren eyes were a memory
Sockets where passion had died
Empty lids long lost in reverie
The last of his tears had dried
441 · Sep 2015
Dark Skies, Darker Words
Drake Brayer Sep 2015
The black sun wreathed the land in a dark thick smoke. The once blue sky was crying, through eyes of blackened hope. A silence so dead had fallen, upon the fallen land. The smell of fire was fresh, it's charcoal after taste painted every breath. It's dying embers still linger, glowing like faeries in the day's bleak twilight. It felt as if their light had power, an undying immortality. Eerie crimson splotches, dotted the unmoving earth. As our boots moved noiselessly across the newly made waste. I came within reach of those orbs that seemed so much like the Sun's silent tears. And looking down upon the shallow crater in which it was buried. My eyes were met by the gaping maw of an undying corpse. In the blackness of that maw, my mind glimpsed the end of eternity. And the cessation of conscious life. The body held no soul, but it's visage was alive with the memory of pain. I could smell it's cooked grey skin, scent so heavy on the air. And suddenly an arm had reached out and launched me two full strides forward. At that moment, terror so pure and so harsh latched onto my heart with the intensity of a dying star.
437 · Dec 2014
The Masks We Wear By Day
Drake Brayer Dec 2014
Fear is a mask that I wear by day
Hiding my face from words you say
Pain is the name of the armour I wear
A contortion of sweat that fills the air
Malice is the look in my twisted eyes
The vision of apocalypse in disguise
The emotions in which I dress
Are the clothes in which I die
The things that we suppress
Are the truths we claim are lies
416 · Sep 2015
Home
Drake Brayer Sep 2015
Soft silk cascading down
From the heavens
Souls ever upward bound
A dark procession

Of souls so light
Gleaming angels
Figures in white
Framed in angles

Of tormented sight
Blackened eyes
Birthed in night
Their silent cries

Scar the stars
Broken vows
Echo far

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