Bridge of Spasms

With fist on hilt I wade thru guilt towards the Bridge of Spasms

A flailing limb cast across the yawning Maul of Chasms

Hooked to ledge at sanity's edge steel convict clamped in irons

It undulates squirms like bait hung 'bove pit of lions

That fickle whore Fate forced my gait to tread this skyward path

On skeletal thread blind man led by echoes of strangled laugh

With every step terrors swept fears like flies in rift of mind

I crawled, cracked nails clawed the creaking boards of crooked spine

Torpid Styx twist viscid fist through bowels of howling Deep

My demons spare not one nightmare ever rode plague-ridden sleep

Like ouroboros I swallow tale

Like ouroboros I swallow tale

Nailed to the mast! Flee pox of past!

Ignore the sirens' shrieking hearts

Sail the flux! Ride upheavals!

Dive beyond immortal charts

In lee of Bridge of Spasms I split among the atoms

In lee of Bridge of Spasms I split among the atoms

A raw nerve stretches ganglion curve till ventricles erupt

I flow like blood through floating vein's arterial aqueduct

Crest the arch, gaze aghast, upon Oblique of Great Divide

It mirrors morass, life-spans' collapse, loop of ego's pride

Pride