In A Land Of Sheep, Fear Only The Wolf

-In A Land Of Sheep, Fear Only The Wolf
by Keaton Foster



Do you hear it
Out there
Observable
Is such distance
Do you see
The madness
To you is it clear
Or are you like most
Afraid to truly see
Often prepared
To disbelieve
Beyond what’s real
Are you blind
By choice alone
If so let me assure you
Without question
There are monsters
Creatures in this world
One’s that wish you harm
Beast that prey upon
All that makes us human
I understand this well
Because unlike most
I have known them
And I have felt them
Back when I was a child
My broken father
Spoke to me
In the deepest
Of darkness
He said
My sickly son
The poorest of child
Listen quite well
In a land of sheep
Fear only the wolf
At first
Like any naïve child
I misunderstood
I was not sure
Of what he meant
But in time
It was made very clear
There are victims
And there are victimizers
One does not exist
With the other
The blood of some
Must be spilt
To feed the appetites
Of the so very angry few
Wise words
From a man
That was all beast
All horrific creature
In time
Long after I grew
Beyond control
I myself
Went from a sheep
To the most
Cunning of predator
And when I was ready
I took his life
But before he died
Before I beat him to death
With these very hands
He looked up at me said
My defenseless child
The light of all darkness
What of me have you done
What have you become
Looking down
Upon his broken
And battered body
Looking down
Upon what I’d done
Softly I replied
In a land of sheep
Fear only the wolf…


In A Land Of Sheep, Fear Only The Wolf
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2016.