Horror Story Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Horror Story



I dismember the past like a butcher
My hands sticky with blood
The hatchet in my hand
Performs a hopeless autopsy

The present cowers in terror,
The stink of loss and guilt in its wake

I visit the thorny bush, remembrance
Like a crow, seeking its nest
No solace in its shadows
No rest, no rest

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Tom Billsborough 30 July 2018

We need to cast off our shadows but they are gummed to our souls. A very powerful poem.

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