DARK LOVER

such a dreadful thing has happened 

On her way through life

She met a man who had

 a dog 

a cat 

and then 

a wife 

a surly guy with bitter needs 

like chocolate 

Wanting 

more than greed

She had his picture in her eyes 

his face was fair his eyes were wide 

and in the moment their minds locked 

She saw herself inside and flocked 

to all the places in him deep 

began to know him wake and sleep

and when he came to her in dreams 

She'd walk his
 Land and be his schemes

The darkest Hollow feeling lurched 

 Empty as a derelict Church 

and twice as cold 

and thoughtless
Heart 

A faithful pain

 that never parts 

began to hang around...

It nurtured all the feelings 

 inadaquate and hurt

 and raised  it's head to cleanse away

 The Guilt
The Shame
The Dirt

For he was the Darkest Lover 

hidden in her undergrowth 

the darkest lover 

of them all

Who would  

when fancy took him

Sometimes

Come to call...

(c) Helena C Carta

THE SKULL

The skull 

stares back at me 

Cold Hollow Eyed 

Through plated glass
loomed stark and sighed

 A once breathing being

a person such as me 

Each Holy breath for granted 

Each morsel taking liberty

No slave to the water bearer 

You or  I 

Earthly gifts abate our hunger  

  things that money shouldn't buy

 Yes Skull
You
and I  

Oddly this is how it is  

The pivotal force behind Creation

  striving to survive

Gods orchestrated symphonies 

  keeping us alive 

So gloriously arranged 

So the grass It seeds

 And the grass It grows 

So freely, just as we do

 and the water Falls 

and the water Flows 

so freely just like we do 

And this primate fleshless bone 

Who's air filled lungs sighed blood and cried

Now cold as Lapis stone 

A force once sung in here

In him resided Crimson Blue

 A ticking tocking Heart 

Courting the Mercy of the hammer
In the name of  Death and

Art  

Truth kissed Souls die searching 

blazing planets orbit Mars 

Prophets play the chords within us
Death turns us into Stars 

And in the stillness of the Raven Blue 

and the jewel bedazzled sky

Ours is not to question
Ours is not to wonder why
 It is the Diamonds on the Skull

And not the skull itself
Which makes it's worth beyond belief
and Priceless

Beyond Wealth...

(C) HELENA C CARTA

HOW COOL

• 

With voluminous eye

He rearranges me

every set of glances fortified with a gust

for lust

It sits pale as the morning on his face

and a beautiful hue

glows deep within him

A smile dances wryly across his soft skin

and Love love love

rides up in him

He sits at ease in the easy chair

his slim dark features

locks of greasy hair

how cool and unsettling

He sits and stares

how cool and unsettling  in his under wears 

How cool

END OF THE WORLD

Bellowing lovers floating on the airy silence

It has been a decade past since I have tasted your firm lush lips
Basked in all antiquity and heavy as the morning...

The Blood red Sun rises its last head to the East

The She wind blows a Canyon size hole 

through  hemorrhaging Mother Earth

And as The End of the world 

gears up for its final curtain call

I 

have

just 

found

LOVE

(c) Helena.C. Carta