Crawling in the Dark

Death

whispers in her ear.

               So seductive, so

                                tempting.

To end it all before she even had a chance

                      to

begin.

She drowns in darkness,

it fills her

       until she is

blind and

deaf and

numb.

     She tries to

scream

                as her veins fill with the

                  fire

and

                  ice

of her emotions.

A thousand hands drag her down

deeper and deeper,

souls of the damned

pulling her back into the

                          Hell

she thought she

   escaped.

~by Breezy Brignall

Alice's Adventures

Dreams are an illusion

A pretty wish

So fleeting, so fragile

So easy to miss

It kisses me softly

And waits for my time

To gather the courage

And take what is mine



I fall down this hole

No matter the cost

The hourglass empties

As my compass is lost

My tears are a sea

Of hopelessness and fear

I try to see the future

But it doesn’t seem near

The clock ticks and chimes

As I struggle to the sky

I am lost in the tide

As I swim and I cry

I get through the door

By finding my key

It was lost in my soul

But not all as it seems

The caterpillar sits patiently

Waiting for me to come

I’m filled with regret

For the things I have done

I travel through a mystical paradise

Of sinister smiles and shimmering seas

As I drink down the arsenic

That was left in my tea

Words seeping like oil through my brain

Pretend to believe the lies that they tell

No one can ever know

How they cast their spell

I am lost between reality and imagination

What is real? What is fake/

It’s just an illustration

Of what I want, of what I regret

Of what is lost, of what was found

Breezy Brignall, 2012

An excerpt of Poetry from my novel

I wonder sometimes of life and dying

When the world becomes so hard and trying

When nothing is what it seems to be

And you say that you long for me

you give me your un-beating heart

And say we never have to part

If an angel would from the Heavens cry

Would her tears fall like rain from the sky

And wash away all anguish and pain

Until blood and teardrops mingle like rain

If angels cry

If an Angel Would from the Heavens Cry by Breezy Brignall


I pour my heart out like red paint on your canvas

It splatters over the both of us as dusk melts in my heart

Rain is such a blessing in disguise when you have thirsted for as long as I

And the drought that I have crawled myself out of is subsiding

How is it that your very touch sets me ablaze?

How is it that a certain look, a certain quirk of your lips, sends me spiraling off my axis?

I ask myself these questions constantly as you are a constant temptation

A forbidden fruit in my Garden of Eden

The poisoned apple that Snow White bit and succumbed to her fate

Of eternal slumber

Your blood, though so different yet so familiar

I still thirst for you even though I shouldn’t

I drown the sky with my rain as I see storm clouds thundering above my head

The sun is peeking out from behind the lightning, longing to be seen once more

The sun torments me, shining bright behind the dusky clouds, and I see what I am

I drown the sky with my rain, and colors bleed together, all

pastels

and neutrals

and starry studded diamonds

collected in my Undead heart for safe keeping.

I have a fear that the diamonds that glitter deeply in your moonshine eyes can hurt me

but if I don't take a chance now,

will I ever find out?


A Vampire's Lament by Breezy Brignall