Lost

 

Gracious indeed, had I been stillborn

 

Inherit a life already tattered and torn

 

Mere lonliness can't depict all alone

 

For a desolate cry or solitary groan

 

Memories echo this circle of despair

 

Left shreds of good done while there

 

Abolish hope for tomorrow's benign

 

Beginning nor ending, it wasn't mine

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

ight

 

this futile fight

 

ends here tonight

 

it wasn't right

 

a begger's plight

 

sickened and slight

 

infused with fright

 

devoid of might

 

dream denied flight

 

until this light

 

width abound height

 

became so bright

 

holding me tight

 

bestowed me sight

 

i knew delight

 

all is alright

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

VIRTUE

 

AN INERT BIRTH OF DESPAIR AND TORMENT

 

BETRAYL AND REJECTION SEALED IN CEMENT

 

SOVERIENTY TOOK FRAUDULENT CONTROL

 

TARNISHED AND PITTED THIS INFANTILE SOUL

 

EXCAVATE IT'S HEART TO SUBDUE AND DEFILE

 

TYRANNY BY MASSES CONFINE AND BEGUILE

 

CONTRIVED A PREMISE AND SO INSTILLED

 

LEFT DIRE, MALICIOUS ACTS TO BE WILLED

 

REVERENCE OF VIRTUE GAVE HER CONVICTION

 

THUS TERMINATED THIS VISCIOUS AFFLICTION

 

A MALEVOLENT NATURE WOULD NOT ACCRUE

 

DECEASED TO AFFIRM HER INGEGRITY TRUE

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

 

 

 



Entitled

 

Your family rejoiced

The day you arrived

Such pure perfection

Was never deprived

From your pedestal

You always reigned

Instilled with power

So dirty, so stained

Not any compassion

Nor hint of remorse

Just use then dispose

Formality, of course

You may act entitled

To his view, the elite

Instructed to line up

At your meet an greet

One glimpse, I knew

What a fake pious life

Greedy, spoiled bratt

Playing a trophy wife                                                   

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

 

 

 



Afar

 

Bittersweet mourning seeps through my soul

 

Live puddles form wherever you've stepped

 

Trudging over each with indignant control

 

Brokeness flows with these vain tears wept

 

 

 

Emptiness emerged and remained unrestored

 

Flashes of me infused the memories we are

 

Sanity ripped out my heart till love poured

 

Screaming a whisper to love only from afar

 

 

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

Grace

                                                                                                                      

I envision the cross

 

And you crucified

 

When to Our Father

 

At last you cried

 

The heaven's opened

 

For grace to descend

 

Mans sinful nature

 

Had no means to end

 

So many you healed

 

You saved and you fed

 

Casting out demons

 

You taught and you led

 

Righteous and perfect

 

Abandoned by all

 

And yet you'd known

 

This fate would befall

 

God so loved us

 

Before time began

 

You were born to die

 

For the sins of man

 

Never was anyone

 

To take your place

 

Crucified until death

 

We inherit such grace

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

Free

You turned the key

To unlock the door

The room was bare

So I sat on the floor

I waited and waited

No one ever came

Then panic began

This wasn't a game

It became so dark

Shivering, its cold

Reality found me

A truth to behold

Quiet me forever

You lock me away

I kicked, I clawed

I've refused to stay

The walls caved in

Forever I am free

I will tell the world

You had abused me

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

Fire

I had quite alot I needed to burn

 

Gathering sticks I built me a fire

 

This heart load of old memories

 

Each tossed, flames grew higher

 

I cried, they'd been there so long

 

Let it go or cling to nothingness

 

For every one that I'd thrown in

 

Not a one could have cared less

 

After awhile I had only a flame

 

And then barely even an ember

 

A dirty fire had cleaned me out

 

Of all I didn't want to remember

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

 

 

 

 

 



Princess

Satin sheets and raspberry wine

The simple life would never do

His beautiful princess so divine

Can never will her heart to you

 

The royal castle made of stone

Surrounded with gates of gold

But all leave the princess alone

For the king's emotion is cold

 

So each night the princess cries

Life arranged by the king's rule

And something inside her dies

For years she's played his fool

 

The king's heart had failed him

His princess lives out each day

Her fairytale ending now grim

Love must never come her way

 

©S. Austin Vincoski



Death's Embrace

(Dec. 3, 1991)

No smile will again crease the lips

The soul has withered with defeat

A heart beat and strained till silent

Deaths scent was strong and sweet

Mind ceased all means of searching

No function, no response to flee

Every memory was once so sacred

Now vile like venom clings to thee

Pure and peaceful this eternal sleep

Mercy has cast this indelible sign

Prayers answered, never to wake

It's shadow's swarm and intertwine

With a last sigh the spirits rejoice

Beckoning to their angelic place

The life that died and lives again

Enters unknown realms of space

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tale That Never Ends

Not bruises for "show and tell"

Gasoline has a very nice smell

Stomped every sidewalk crack

Borrow means, you give it back

Some freckles are devil spots

Planting weeds in flower pots

My favorite number is eleven

Why do the stars go to heaven

Old music can play in my head

Hold my breath, fake I'm dead

You swallow soap when you lie

Grandma didn't tell me goodbye

Bedtime is still at seven thirty

I get cookies, but I feel dirty

Maggots are in the frying pan

Watch me fly like superman

Kids at school are always clean

Now we live in a car, it's green

I cried because I miss my cat

Everybody says "your a bratt"

But God still loves me anyhow

My remembering is leaving now

 

©S. Austin Vincoski