Apocalypse Drive

Hell is hugging the guardrail as you traverse the highway

Feet bare to glass and rust and stone upon stone

Limbs driven by the atrophy of snapping tendon 

 

Hell is the rattle of change in your cap as you await the sound of angels nearing

 

Hell is the knowledge that you bear no mark of grace

Breathing still but dead in cold earth

Crying out for love and hearing no echo

 

Hell is waking with your life seeping out of your palms

Ashes unrecognizable against dust and bone

God unrecognizable against his sullen perch

 

Hell is tasting the soft kiss of death under the bridge with vicious need

 

Hell is falling upon mortal feet from on high

As if an angel singing out,

My Lord, I am good, but you test me here

psykopompous

CA

16 years old