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Lamentations of a monster

February 14, 2023
By writing-oni SILVER, Aurora, Illinois
writing-oni SILVER, Aurora, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
"In the end, we only regret risks we didn't take"<br /> -Lewis Carrol


Blood pounds in your ears, panic fills your veins


Matching with new dried red stains


Black bones entwined in sinewy muscle and furs


Careening through the trees, still silent and undisturbed


You could be a brother, a father, a daughter or mother


But now, none of that matters


You are just prey for the other,


The demon with blue eyes pulls you from the trees


With nets and guns shinning through fallen leaves


Eyes feel pain as tears eat away at your eyes


In one moment, you see through the other side


With no remorse, you take the Beast


The monster who makes humans their feast


This must be justice, as has been foretold


Yet such action leads to a path of gold


And false promises in Hunters’ wake


Your curious as to how much you can take


At once your back hunted again,


And lo, find it to be just a monster’s lament


Your vision blurs, and the moon starts to fade,


The Monster has left with your last serenade


The author's comments:

This was actually the first piece I did senior year, in my final grade school English class. When I walked into the classroom, expectations in my own head were to be the bottom rung of the ladder, the "weak link." However within the class I found myself typing one page, then two. I suppose what Im trying to convey here is that it can be a fatal flaw to underestimate and compare yourself, and if you do you can never see what progress you make. Thank you for reading!

-a grateful oni


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