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Poetry: Grey

Out of the Sandbox July 9, 2016 , by

By Evan Malki

 

Far beyond your gaze

Lies a creature

Masked by a haze

Of nondescript features

 

It reaches out with a plea

Left unanswered

Its sadness deeper than the sea

Corrupting it like a cancer

 

This is life’s bane

Far beyond the sight of ye

The pain

Which thee cannot see

 

The crow

Is the cause

The source of its woe

Raked by its dark claws

 

Someday, the crow will leave

Unconcerned, it flies away

Leaving the creature to grieve

And to die where it lay

 

In that moment

Its humanity severed

It lay broken

Touched by the crow’s feather

 

The creature changed

Different than before

Turned deranged

Now evil at its core

 

The creature turned

And became its transgressor

One of the spurned

And a bird of the same feather

 

Now akin

To those it once hated

A shell of what it once had been

It’s true self desecrated

 

But you can still be rescued

It isn’t too late

You can still find refuge

If you discard your hate

 

Heave!

Push with all of your might.

Cleave!

Tear yourself from the spite.

 

That is the key

To ending the darkness in your heart

Set yourself free

And let your malice depart

 

Fight with your courage

That could rip land asunder

It is a new age

Now resound with a cry like thunder

 

What once was filled with woe

Is now replaced with love

What was once a crow

Is now a dove.

 

Header photo by Ashley Diener (flickr creative commons)

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