Shrivelled Wings - Blinded By Faith

We went to see you at the hospital

In your bed, you were already skeletal

It was a matter of time before you died

Cancer was eating you from inside

So we decided to take you with us

So you could at least spend your last minutes

Away from those strangers in the cold

We can’t leave a dog on the threshold

When your pain was unbearable

Like molten lead pour in your innards

You took morphine to get some relief

Instantly falling in a coma-like sleep

And I often wondered where you were then

In a no man’s land?

Not far from heaven?

In a color dream where you could screw

All those women who didn’t want you?

You were there, Death without poetry

Grotesque and scandalous nudity

I wanted to weep but tears didn’t come

My heart stood still like a frozen sun

I could only stare at your open eyes

Your mouth tensed with a silent cry

Your shoulder blades under the skin

Protruding like two shriveled wings

In the night, you knocked on oblivion’s door

I found you still on the bathroom floor

In a ring of clotted blood

A fist in the face, my first cadaver

So different than the other corpses I’ve seen

Liars in black suits, masquerade!

Perfectly prepared for the human parade

A fake prayer in the funeral comedy