The Keep

Lucifer’s Retreat

The Keep By
*(Matthew Bowers)*~93
posted by The Editor on December 21, 2021

Journey
Forward

Onward
Into frozen
Abyss

Krazee miles
Stretch beneath
Icicle hung sky

Insanity
Calamity
Await
Not far
Up winding
Road

Decades and decades
Worth of damned

Thirsty Souls haunt
The front step
Overlooking
Infernal cliffs

Innocence to be lost
To play and dance
In dirty martini ways

Across ballroom floors
Painted with dust
Orchestral thoughts echo
Within bleeding fractured
Minds

Brilliant hues of yesterday’s
Memories come twisted
In reflections of desire and sin

A cold front landed
Setting the stage of isolation

Carnage and carnal nights

A puppet
A pawn
A mere vessel for lease

Trudging onward
Belial whispers begin to haunt
Crack creeking steps

Mounting heavy
Heady thoughts
Conspire and pull

Consuming
Ego
Self
Identity

Left is the husk
Of a forlorn man

Unknowingly ready
To stoke the fires
Of
Mephistophelean
Pergatory

No rest among the spirits
That feed and tear upon the soul

The keeper comes

Key in hand
Unlocking Dante’s Underworld

Up on the Hill