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Pulsating Sliver of Glory

Writer's picture:  Shrine Shrine

Marion Silver from the movie (Requiem for a Dream)

desperate for representation, but not a sliver of familiarity

her and her exhibitionist tendencies

wanted to be seen, raw & unclean - than to die a mystery

a depiction, an image of her bare soul, bare skin & bare body

sweat dripping down her chest & blood down her wrist

got hexed, with a curse, an appetite for more

the next one will be my salvation

hedonistic, chased after euphoric encounters & delightful lows

euphoria for glares of wit, & seething lows

because she was broken & thought to herself

I am worthy


redemptive, consumed by a lust for a life that wanted nothing but to fuck her up

intrusive thoughts, sharp edges & exasperating moans

cavorting to the metallic squeals of the flaming lips

discorded harmonies, hatred & hostility

rebellion, exaspe-fucking-ration

this is my fervency


uncensored desires & an appetite for destruction

a 23 year old having a tantrum

abducted by the mania that lured her in

with promises of fairytale tongues & arcane colors

but lustrous, it used her up, & passed her on to rage

& a circle of unexplored emotions, madness, lust, fear & grandiosity

& in between, we were touched by phantoms


my hatred sparked an animus

& rendered a bitter taste that rotted in my mouth

snuck its way into my gut & started molding

highs, lows, euphoria, rage & joy

hate, lust, hate again & an explosion

of hormonal emotion, rasping sobs & a ringing migraine

that kept clawing out my brain

& scraping the insides of my skull

an exodus calling out the reaper’s name

yearning, Dagon, Dagon, Dagon

Dagon

but these karmic bonds were fated

so, bleed me dry, I begged Dagon

bleed me dry

bleed me dry

my 12 slit veins are bursting


Dagon; To be cut open

gashing body, my fresh scars, & his eyes tracing my figure

I didn’t like it, but then again, I loved the things I didn’t like

Ludovico’s experience

& seasons by Vivaldi

swayed & swung me till I fell for surf rock

those fiery chains bonded me, I couldn't stand still

& I begged again.. cease me

but I kept throbbing, into internal eternal chaos, the never-ending

life after life of pulsating glory, so disturbing

convulsing with blood, ink & bodily fluids called poetry

& an arena of growling, flaming mouths, these ghouls devouring each-other

at a heaving war to drink what left of grace they have in the back of each-other’s throats

just to fill the void.. with something


but pain isn’t so bad, it’s freeing

it glaringly marked

the unbecoming of who I am not


my vessel was burning, heaving for centuries

seraph ignis, she thought

the frostbites were a vagarious healing through art

flawed with thirst, covered in sweat.. we were hugged

by arctic winds, greeting us at Phlegethon, Lethe & Styx

Acheron, the bitter regret of what has been missed

Cocytus, all the light forgotten; all the light lost

death, repeating our spells again

Oscar Wilde, to this sacramental thing

make me holy


a freckled kiss scattered on my fading scars

& my stolen love trying to steal back

a portrait of a woman that alleviated my song

she silenced my pain.. & silently, I was left in pain

my sapphic poetry & her vacant eyes

an enticing dissonance inviting resonance

burdened & guilted me into undressing my darkest self

& oh, how it singed me, brutally scathed & burned my heart

as harshly as midsummer nights in hell

but it was liberating.. the pain always is

& Alas, I craved to be set free


enticed by the redolence of when Atlantis fell

the story never swayed

the living kept falling one by one

speaking in alien tongues

& choking on carbon dioxide

we never knew the weight of what we held within

magic was lost, paradise & innocence

trails of blood, perspicuous

lost herself to sin

lost herself to sin

& the contortions of my chest hurt

whenever I stretched my arms out grasping for strands of light

but my darling, you can’t capture the light

it’s just infinite

& I miss being infinite

so, I kept dreaming, of infinity


but the pain is so concrete, it’s so physically stabbing

it shocks me back into hell every time I reach for heaven

Dagon Dagon Dagon, convulsing, to be cut open

joy, lust, rage, ardor, joy again

An Explosion


- Shrine



Harry and Marion from the movie Requiem for a Dream

their bodies not only craving, but needing the very poison that grounds them into this pitiable state of being.” —Requiem for a Dream (2000, Hubert Selby Jr.)

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