Where Dark and Light Collide

PAD Challenge day 27: write a monster poem

You slink between whispers

And hide beneath pillows

Tireless fiend, you torment and impose

Ill-favored presence

Wherever the essence

Of faith-flicker falters; you flaunt grim unknowns

You mock and scorn

Where Hope, tear-stained and torn

Clutches a candle and kisses dark seas

Devious fraud

As your sickle, a god

Unto the wicked, draws faith to its knees

Skeletal carcass

Wherever the dark is

Here, in your glory you unleash your breath

Pitiless reaper

And merciless schemer

Gathering souls for a harvest of death

  

We could not chance

Morrow’s imminence

Save for One greater to comfort and cheer

In vain you lash

Seething where demons thrash

For Faith in God grounded is greater than fear

© Janet Martin