Murder on His Mind

On top of him thighs under arm pits
Silently stabbing at his flesh of jello
Like a fishermen pulling a large hook from
A beached whale-
With two hands bathing in the warmth of wet crimson-
I am filled with life as the other beneath me fades.
Its dark, yet there is light.
A cross hangs, blood flows-
Salvation and extermination.
I rise leaving faded foot prints.
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani ?”

Photo:Under Ground, Azarel

Comments

jwiener

"With two hands bathing in the warmth / of wet crimson" is such a gruesome image, and this poem is written so hauntingly but comes with a message about life and death is around us everywherre, every day.

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