Shadow Kin

The ceiling closes in

A child will die tonight

Stripped from the innocence
and purity

A soul, forever tarnished

Remains, bearing testament

To a war that was lost.

Why did the shadows

Allow a survivor?

Unwarranted slaughter

Is their rally and battle cry…

Why leave one life to be lived…?

They do so

For to some victims of battle

Death is a gift

A mercy

And the shadows don’t believe

In mercy.

The greatest pain they can cause

To this prisoner

Is to release her

And snicker in the background

As she attempts to relearn

How to live in this world…

And fails.

Killing her would provide

Entertainment for the moment

But her prolonged suffering

Offers so much more.

She attempts to end it

When she musters up enough strength…

But she cannot

For while she blocks out

The memories of her imprisonment

The shadows raped her

Before they released her

They took turns at leaving behind

Their seed of darkness

And now within her grows a child

A child with an infernal hunger

She can feel the evil inside her…

A child will die tonight

As one of her flesh

Is nourished by her corpse

An infant with ageless eyes

Who will return to its shadow kin.

Reviews

[Andrea Vargas]

Shayla one day..... I just know it, one day you will be famouse. I say this because every word you speak is of an amazing essence! Never stop writing your an inspiration!

[joshua deathdealer]

Wow great write..I enjoyed this one. Dark and interesting..xx

[Raven Starhawk]

A blessed write for these eyes to behold.

[SpokenWord]

Made me think of a horror film the child of the Shadows could be the title of it. I like the story telling in this poem and the darkness you brought out in it.

[anne p. murray- LadeeAn..]

Ohh such a travasty, a tragedy. A poem so poignant it makes one want to burst out in tears