What Lies Between Poem by Yekaterina Bezpalaya

you live to die another day

with sinful sun and wicked rays

like sepulcher your body sleeps

inflicts the sky with lurid dreams

the scenes enact once fearless time

when innocence met villain's prime

and innocence took ill and fell

replaced by shadows brewed in hell


you die to live another day

repent yourself when led astray

when wants and loves thrust grace away

you mourn the choice you chose that day

a villain's prime knows not but whim

a sin made quick

a poison skilled

you flog the flesh, the mind, the soul

but anguished tries fall deaf on old


you both have lived and died today

the one repents

the other preys

as both walk past

their lives remain

one alive

the other slain.