http://slow.writerscafe.org/Gargoyle The original writings of author The_Gargoyle en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775996743 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 It seems absurdPerhaps obsceneYour trace a haunting toneI smile as I walk alonePassing glanceIdle chanceDrawn like moths to a shared flameEach street sign holds your nameTouch briefBreath deepThe days wither in autumn heatYour smile rests in each heartbeatFuture darkMemory fadesEach shared momentBeg.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1615330/ It’s not to say I was blindIt’s not to say I played the foolIt only serves to remindThat my heart can play a trick so cruel                        &nbsp.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1590076/ The truly humbling realisation is that everything issubjective.As fragments of a universal truth we look through biologicaleyes and evolutionary bodies into the heart of the stars that forged us and tryto catch a glimpse of something we will never even begin to grasp. To grasp isa human .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1589336/ A somewhat orderly recount of my struggles with the fundamentals of existence. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1589333/ Every-time I close my eyesAwake, I dream of plastic liesLurid dyes on neon skiesNo fall, no guilt, no compromise.Yet every-time I fall asleepI'm prey to terror long and rancour deepNever one to count the sheepOr so I've been told.Can I say the mirror lies?Am I wrong to lust for neon skies?Or shall I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1587126/ Tragedy in symphonyBitter taste of companyTorrent of words toward meThe carousel wind dies downSlithering hatred marks the tempoGnawing empathy blind to seeGrace of emptiness, blank, white snowSour tang, taste of tears decree.Irony in ignorant prophecyGrinding strain of intimacyInexplicable burden l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1558514/ I drank deep from the waters of lifePaced long among the trees of thoughtFor living I earned but strifeWith thinking misery bought.Instinct drove me furtherSilence a spirit did crackA thousand needles in my mindAs many daggers in my back.Leaves withered as wind blewToday I mourn the world I knew.Lap.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1552358/ You suffer ninety thousand facesAll hid in ninety thousand placesTwist and turnDie and burnAnd yet, you leave no traces. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1530401/ Streets of neonGutters of bloodDripping like honeyAcrid as mudWhispers of shadowsReflections of dreamsAmong a throng of facesNo one knows what no one seemsCoerced to climb higherConvinced to tumble downTides of worthless wordsEach listless mass encrownSlink through the crimson cityBask in the lurid .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1526362/ Thread the stars across the skyStately as the day we dieHurriedly slow the funeral pyreHushed in night, the sable direA journey long, the wind my lyreStrangled suns, endless mireGallows birds, my requiem choirBleak encore, Death's last satire http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523676/ Shadows carve a pallid swatheIn amber hue thick stones batheAshen lies crawl atop decayIn unknown winds let grave cloth sway http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523673/ Threads of sunlight deftly streamEach strand knots a silent dreamShining azure, softly bloomFlutter as a heart entombNo more than dreams in day's embraceTapestry of stars echoes her face http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523670/ Constrained in flesh, tied to the beat of muscleMind paces through forever, locked prisms of fashion home-grownGrasp and step, toil and remakeWhat body of man would touch the sunWhich name enter the whisper of a thousand windsNot one sea of ashes drifts foreverNo title plasters the walls of the immo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523667/ Swords of the palePierce clouds, deftly threadDrape, veil, sootheComing of the night in pure light sung http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523665/ Pallid, scarredCaustic, charredPooling bruise, map the painNaught to call my own or saneGrimly pale yet growing darkEach neglect another mark http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523661/ I am but a spark of existence in the sea of voidreadily extinguishedreadily forgotten A grain of sand upon a precipiceConfronted with the yearning of eternityBeckoning a breath of windA leaf upon the surface of an oceanLaying atop the secrets of an aeonoblivious to the lightless expanse belowEv.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Gargoyle/1523660/