The dust billows around my torso, a pool of blood
‘Neath my head. My ragged breath gasps in the cold winter air
As i heave convulsively on the soil.
A roar tears out of my being, my eyes wide, bloodshot and hungry
And a violent sweat breaks across my brow.
The pathetic, weak form of my mortal self returns
Once again im forced to submit to the puny, worthless,
Wretched will of the Other Man, He who chooses to reside in the light
He who chooses to live a half-life in the rays of the sun
While i grant his most sacred, his most intimate desires
Billowed in the darkness, hidden from the world.
The ghost of a little girl’s screams shrieks through the morning mist
And I feel the goosebumps of pleasure break across my body, even as
He recoils in fear and disgust. I try to coax him, to gently drive him to the edge
From where He shall drop back into the anonymous, mundane filth He had risen from
And i will finally have the entire claim over this vessel we share.
He resists me, denying me the control and power i desire, a shade
Of the morally sound, just man he had once been.
Nothing remains now that we share,
I am His secret disease, His grotesque pride, His stellar achievement
As He is my shame, my disgust, the entity i wish to destroy with my bare hands.
How i long to feel the blood of Jekyll flow between my fingers, how i long
To take over this body we share, to extend my dark, contagious blood lust over the remnant
Of his once innocently pure mind.
And all of a sudden i feel His will crumble
I feel his sturdy control deteriorate, and the last traces of His being
Whisper to me pathetically, begging me not to unleash
The wild, furious joy coursing through my veins.
His final words ring in my head, fading away as i feel my strength return and the adrenaline rush take over
All His morals, all His guilt, all His sorrow
Nothing can hold me in check now.
I am the one who arose from the deepest pits of Man’s darkest desires
I am the embodiment of all that evil, all that is powerful in Man
And I am the one who shall prevail now and forever.
a flipside of Jekyll, from the infamous tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde