The Elegant Demon (standard:poetry, 178 words)
Author: Michael H. Silverman	Added: Dec 03 2000	Views/Reads: 3615/2	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The elegant demon approaches.

The Elegant Demon. 

The ravens now thunder as he passes 

Like a great screaming shroud they flash 

Addressing him through darkened glasses 

As he drives his hellion horses with a lash 

Silent as on mist, or by ancient wings aloft 

Through leaves crisp in the Autumn cold 

Now on foot there comes a demon soft 

Who's coming is not foretold 

But by the crimson trail that drains 

Below the soil rich with stains 

Beneath the rock where lay remains 

Of what his hunger couldn't hold. 

An elegant destroyer 

Icy death be his employer 

He may entertain you, as a cat 

Entertains a rodent before it feeds 

Before it falls upon with teeth 

Before the flesh that fully bleeds 

No, there lives no mortal needs 

In the breast of this unliving leech 

Your thoughts betray you 

Guard your speech 

For this beast makes the devil tremble 

And the people fast assemble 

In their church where they beseech 

God and Gods for saving grace 

To rescue all the human race 

From the elegant demon's reach. 

- Michael H. Silverman  (c)2000 


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