11-18-2014, 05:58 AM
Hi all!
Last week was a bad week here in the Holy Land: Lots of death, misery and extremism all around. The phrase "Demons dance in a blood-red sky" just popped into my head last Monday evening & I sat up until almost 01:00 writing a first draft.
So...
Demons dance in a blood-red sky
above the corpses where they lie,
above the lies for which they fell;
tears on Earth, delight in Hell.
Like Dover Beach and Flanders' fields
the ground a grisly harvest yields
of noxious weeds and mangled shoots,
toxic dreams and caustic fruits.
Abel walks among the stars
but it is Cain who bears the scars.
Now I understand what Ecclesiastes said,
pity the living, not the dead.
Where are these demons who nimbly prance
in danse macabre with quill and lance?
Dear God, dear God, they're coming nearer!
There! There! In the mirror!
Demons dance in a blood-red sky
above the corpses where they lie.
Thanks in advance for reading.
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Last week was a bad week here in the Holy Land: Lots of death, misery and extremism all around. The phrase "Demons dance in a blood-red sky" just popped into my head last Monday evening & I sat up until almost 01:00 writing a first draft.
So...
Demons dance in a blood-red sky
above the corpses where they lie,
above the lies for which they fell;
tears on Earth, delight in Hell.
Like Dover Beach and Flanders' fields
the ground a grisly harvest yields
of noxious weeds and mangled shoots,
toxic dreams and caustic fruits.
Abel walks among the stars
but it is Cain who bears the scars.
Now I understand what Ecclesiastes said,
pity the living, not the dead.
Where are these demons who nimbly prance
in danse macabre with quill and lance?
Dear God, dear God, they're coming nearer!
There! There! In the mirror!
Demons dance in a blood-red sky
above the corpses where they lie.
Thanks in advance for reading.
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