The Mark of Cain

Strolling through the forest

Ancient with decay

Temperature starts rising

On this hot and humid day

Thunderbolts

Lighting

Cascades of warm wet rain

Release in me

The deity

They call

The Mark of Cain

-

Stricken at birth

Afflicted

Cursed from the very first breath

To wander through life

Forever

Alone

Enshrined in this bizarre living death

-

Ten thousand fingers

Caress me

Bedevil passionate skin

Beat of the heat

Thrill of the chill

Consummate

The

Original

Sin

-

Mind begins to wander

Eyes begin to scan

Rising tide

Burns deep

In

Me

My

Need

To

Seed

A

Man

-

I spy one in the meadows

Taking shelter from the storm

I

Am

Not

Gregarious

By

Nature

But …

Watch

Me

Now

Perform

-

I toss back my hair full of contempt

I’m Brazen

I’m Bold

Bodacious

Unkempt

-

Confidence

Starts

Coursing

Through

My soiled veins

Needs will soon be sated

Unleashed

By

Corrosive

Chains

-

As

I

Venture closer

Something’s not quite right

The vision of the man I saw

Starts fading in the light

So I gather up the pace

Before my orchid does explode

Eager and keen

To fulfill the curse

And

Reset the hereditary code

-

I demand order out of chaos

As Pythagoras did teach

But my man has disappeared

Have you seen him?

I beseech

I scour the meadows and valleys

Hunting high and low

Who is the one who has stolen my man?

Who desiccated this turbulent flow?

-

Suddenly …

I sense a movement

Flitting through the trees

It is hard to locate the owner

As it shoots the ballsy breeze

-

But ..

I am not a defeatist

I will get my dues

So I make a run for it

Determined

To

Detonate this fuse

-

But …

There is something vaguely familiar

About the form that I do chase

And as I catch up hungrily

I stare into its face

-

I fear my eyes betray me

My scream

A silent sound

My doppelganger

Smiles

As I fall onto the ground …