Dark Places... (a Boy once Slain) (Poem 2026)

I'm in that dark place in my mind again...

After a long hard battle...

Because those people we're so cold-hearted...

And then I moved into a new place in time...

Into a new phase, the next era of my life...

When I think of it... the past...

The Vietnam war came to mind...

Everytime I look back at them...

My intentions were so very true...

Even when the sky was black...

Everytime those people were so cruel...

Then I tried not to block them out...

Because I wanted to feel their pain...

Those who almost drove me completely insane...

I cry that my boyhood was vanquished...

And now the remnants of an older man...

I do what I can, I cannot complain...

Such is life...

To fire and fry the circuit board...

In my brain...

Like I said before...

I was a boy who was once slain...

I'll say it again, again, and again...

Then love comes a knocking...

Children come into view...

How some children suffer...

The one's who are happy are few...

How lucky they may be...

For I was not that one...

To be a vampire...

As a kid... I knew who I was...

And what I did... 

Because I wrote the story...

As an old time glory...

The Jolly Rodger...

I want it back, my mind that is...

My source of power, my self control...

To slay the Dragon, and....

The fountain of my Fathers...

Who threw me into that abyss...

Only to discover...

That I could form that idea...

But in a state of supreme unutterable bliss...

Give that past a slip...

And realize,  really, 

That I'm not really the Devil's Kiss...

After all...

Amen