No Remorse story poem for supervillain

narrative verse in rhyming quatrains

 

 

No remorse

 

Beneath the waves my lover lies.

They search for her without success.

I see suspicion in their eyes

They do not know but some still guess

 

I loved her well and faithfully.

I thought she was the perfect wife.

Behind my back she betrayed me.

I had the right to take her life.

 

Or would have had long years ago

The price of infidelity

 was to be slain and justly so.

Though today’s laws do not agree.

 

I could not kill her openly.

Though she had earned the punishment.

I had to plan it carefully

and see no reason to repent.

 

My conscience does not bother me.

I still sleep peacefully at nights.

She feeds the fish beneath the sea.

I wish them hearty appetites.

 

I have no doubt that in due course

the tides will wash her bones ashore.

I do believe I had just cause.

She won’t betray me any more

 

D.N.A may identify

 to whom the naked bones belong

 but never how she came to die

 Nor will they prove that  it was wrong.

 

It could have been an accident.

Or a guilt induced suicide.

The only thing that I resent

That I had no choice but to hide

 

The punishment she well deserved.

Instead of acting openly

I think that justice has been served.

Though no one knows the truth but me.

 

My lover lies beneath the waves

 I visit her quite frequently

 as other people visit graves

I walk the shore beside the sea.

 

22-Aug-08

 

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