Three Poems by Cody Tucker

The Fire Speaks to Us All

Its boards crack and moan
The flames eat their way across
Everything washed in a thin orange haze
A single match started this wrong
I can never go back
I've burnt the last bridge home


Old Love

Your face lingers long after your gone
Burned in my eyes
Will this bittersweet taste ever leave
I walk the streets and hear your voice in the crowd
Dark and strange people surround me
They offer your replacement
And my soul with it
And i settle down to something sweet and sickly
Come join me for one last dance
The moonlight our only companion
The wound festers and aches
My eyes begin to blur
I hear a knock at the door
Despair joins me for a drink
I find a comfortable chair in my head
And take a seat
Come join me for one last dance in the moonlight
Sorrows the melody


The Human Weakness

Desire overwhelms common sense
Right and wrong are thrown out the window
The beast and the man become one
Out of him spews forth vulgar shapes of his life
The others see and join in the fray
Wanting to taste something other than the mundane
They grew old in a day
They lost their minds in a moment of pleasure
The drug became their god
And they couldn't remember their way home
The room was washed in a thick gray smoke
And in it they thought they saw their souls drift away
The pills resembled faces of old friends
And they laughed
They did not partake sparingly
Like a starving man they consumed
Mad cackles filled the night air
The rain that wouldn't cease began to pour
And they forgot who they were

{Three Poems by Cody Tucker}