Up the River

Deep into Our Hearts of Darkness

By: Charles Giuliano - Apr 29, 2015

Up the River

Struggling for birth
Merging art and memory
Exploring the horrific
Unknown
Handful of confidantes
Pleased to be among them
Without mercy
Or remorse
I stripe your back
Lash of an overlord
Or editor
Demanding you press on
Further, deeper
Up the river
Into the cave
Where we meet
Then decapitate
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
The Horror
Drink tea
Swap war stories
Hearts united in darkness
Mine of a domestic nature
By comparison
So benign
Draconian fangs
As you say
Cut just as deep. 
Each in our private hell
Assigned there
By Dante
Or Art Forum