. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Will he be visiting you with more than a lump of coal?

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Will he be visiting you with more than a lump of coal?


 Will he be visiting you with more than a lump of coal?


Title

Krampus speaks from the Great In-Between. 


(A dark voice whispers)



Love and loneliness 

Unspoken dreams of romance and broken hearts 


Shall have no reunion 

But instead


Like fettered beasts to the slaughterhouse


They will stare foolishly into the distance 


As they are abandoned, 

Pleading for hope and a new companion 


For deaden souls deserve no salvation


Such is my curse of the Dammed 


Running or walking throughout 

Every living nation 


Men or women

Especially at Christmas


Swimming naked in pools of hate and judgement 


Shall become as one


As they hear my approaching bells


Under the gaze of my cosmic gun


Love and loneliness

Sadness and pain


Will be their everlasting daylight


In their souls window panes


My silver mistress, 

Mother Moon


Will seal their fate 

On the twenty-fifth 


When presents are received

For the spiteful and jealous


The hateful and cruel 

Who loves to deceive


You better pray to change your ways 


Before Christmas Eve 


Or you might get a visit from me


Even if in me,

You do not believe 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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