Ate A Crocodile... Poem by Nestor David Armas

Darkness is the only light

I seek, silence the only sound

I take heed, such is my plight

Scent of death come the bloodhound,

Take me down into the depths of

The cloudy skies drifting above,

I've spun out of your orbit

And I'm off into the nearest sun,

The last bullet I must have bit

Hollowed out the chambers of your gun,

Burning in and burning up

The oxygen in my lungs

I got too close

And singed my nose,

Ladder from the moon

I've broken all the rungs

No way back

Unless I tack on another tack,

Runneth over my cup

Spilled from thy lips and soon,

The stars will fall

Drops of light into my dark, call

Off the ravens and bring

The vultures that sing,

Over my melancholy

No crime or folly,

I've still got a smile

Because an alligator ate a crocodile...

(01/08/2012)