There’s a monster lurking
Jerking
Working at the chains fixed to the wall
It’s gnawing,
ever sawing
Ever sawing through the gristled gall
And here I am
A traitor
Telling tales
Upon the bristled ball
Oh treason, tongue of daggers, poison apple take the fall!
I stare into the maw.
- - -
I wander through the mists of mourning
Pearls adorning every limb
As tears.
They drop and drip,
they pour in
waves, cascades
they coat my lips as fears
And warnings, death and din
And here I am, a berth of sin
A deer,
the headlights imminent,
the rain downpouring,
glistening and raw;
I stare into the maw.