Retribution Poem by Lucifera Santez

Retribution



Just as the day ends
And begins the night
And as moon comes up
Sun loses the fight
To light every corner of dark
To ignite every small spark
Like the sun I go down
In the night
When I lose
The remaining shreds of humanity
The binding grate of mortality
I embrace the dark
As it races to meet me
And together we fall
In the heaven of sins
In vestiges of brutality
Through the night
Amid in sin
What we do
I don’t dare to tell you
I can’t begin
To describe the hell
And its murky ways
The sweet smell of blood
The stench of decay and death
Sun starts to climb the horizon
The edges of limitless blue
I cloak myself in my human garb
And start my journey to home
Where at front door
My wife is standing
With a bloodied bundle in her hand
Shaking I peer inside
Seeing the mangled body of my small man
Torn flesh and distorted skin
Blood dried and bones jarring beneath
I turn to her and want to know
What happened to our firstborn?
She hiccups and tells me
“A monster ate away our baby”.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Aldrich Suarez 19 June 2013

a good imagination... a folk but a good write

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Valerie Dohren 18 June 2013

A very dark write - we all have monsters in our lives, but we can defeat them if we have the will.

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