Phil Etherington

A Night in Shining Arms

To touch
To taste
The world upon your fingertips
This heartbeat quickens inside
Such kisses heated
Burning, brilliant
So smooth
Such beauty
Love and lust kick within
Can I not deny my need of you?
© 10/1/99


Thoughts

All these thoughts
Blunt
Simple
Crashing in a supernova inside eyes that fear the world's own terror
Needle head holes light the darkness of my heart
Cut and spread over a hundred lives
Dreams to touch another hand of silken smooth string wrapped coils
To feel the press
Caressing whisper of lips upon lips to create a kiss never to be
repeated
The clutch upon the world is strengthened through the shaking of
unstable hands
The hearts that feel my gentle thumping
Are the ones to feel this love
And only one does feel me truly
© 12/23/98



Acid

The whispers
The splinters
Jarring deep inside my scalp
Collaborating evil dreams
Defining children's screams
Burning me with frozen leaves
Wishing away on stolen thoughts
Blown away with glass
Scraping scars into my arms
Tearing limbs from my eyes
Far beyond an overdose
Dilated with a cats eye stare
Dragons burning in their flames
Must run and hide inside my head
Fall in the water and be dead
Melting cold on acid cubes
Blurred thunder breaking tones
Watching from another picture
Teetering on my blood
Dripping solid sweat in droplets
The crystal floor parting beneath me
Silence twisting jaws of powder
Kissing fumbled teenage lips
Rings of glory in my head
Spinning circles around my body
Lost inside a trip on acid
Screaming softly through cracked lips
"The stars... they're bleeding..."
© 19/9/98