Ivory white and yellowed or old

The bones in the cellar,

dripping with mold

 

Softened by rot and cankerous

cold

the bones in the cellar,

drenched in mold

 

Slime like paint

green and false gold

the bones in the cellar,

sinful with mold

 

Blood dried ’round

these walls so bold

The bones in the cellar

are awash

with mold

 

The stench in the air sinks down in the cold

the bones in the cellar are old with mold;

To take in a breath will drain your soul

but the bones in the cellar draw you in to their fold

Stay in the dark with gold unsold

Shining in the light catching lies untold

from the dark where the bones lie

in blood and mold

in greed so bold they were stolen away

like the gold now caught in white hand’s sway

it curls its fingers ’round blind man’s riches

in the dark with its bones and fel green stitches

of cloth that wrap near the base of the cold

and the white

and the whole of the light

shining down to the

ivory

and the softness

of the silence

in the cellar

where the bones lie

dripping

with

mold.

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©2013 Sam Oliver (Eris)

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Poems, poems, poems.

I’ve got more. I’m not sure what inspired this one, but I like its rhythm.

Love,

Eris