Want for Retribution

once upon a morning of desperate fervor
born of rage and thundering menace
oddities ride the shadow of a bloody sunrise
anger ignites my soul to blazing brands

this world of cruelties and untold woes
my ire consumes to righteous ashes
avenges the fracture of innocent gems
tears down monoliths of pain

the fantastic shroud falls
from a waking vision of fiery wrath
and unreal yearning to be endowed as the powers that be
that possess me in the wake of humanity's agonies

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Excerpt, "The Sunday Usual"

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Excerpt, "Wasteland Dreams"

Andromeda, Gustave Doré Part of the collection Dues for the Repose: From Words Much Like Poetry by Wamuhu Mwaura " Near Joppa, guarded by a monster of the Earthshaker’s lending , I left her chained without hope—for Perseus is long dead , abandoned to oblivion by the fickle beliefs of men — " [ Kindle Edition for instant reading. ]

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