The Lion Of Darkness

-The Lion Of Darkness-
by Keaton Foster


Silent
Is the song
That
Plays along
Death
It won’t
Be long
Predators
Seek prey
Carrion
For the feast
Catching it
With ease
All beast
Complete
God’s gift
To themselves
Humans
Not so much
Mistakes
Happenstance
Upon its head
Two
All that was planned
Now
A thinning of the heard
Justice he demands
How exactly
Via his
Hands off approach
Some freewill
Other insincerities
Disguised
As atrocities
He won’t help
He won’t step in
He’ll just watch
Let it happen
Because there
The lion
Of darkness
Is stalking
His latest prey
Another victim
Of his need
His desire
To feast
A man
A fallible
Human indeed
In a place
That he
Does not belong
Truly the beast
Hidden
Is at home
Right where
He belongs
Most of all
Killing is easy
Once
All fear is removed
Murdering
Becomes mundane
When it is because
Of an internal need
A desire to be fed
And
An unwillingness
To starve to death
The lion
Of darkness
Will be quick
Efficient at ends
He knows what’s next
He understands
The heck
The man
The one about to die
Knows nothing
Of the end
He lives his life
Always expecting
There will be more
But not on this night
He made a mistake
He took
Or stumbled upon
The wrong path
One that has led him
Here
Within the grip of doom
It will all be swift
Instant
No resistance
The snap of his neck
The break of his spine
Separating
The pain
From an ability
To feel it
He will be alive
Then instantly
He’ll be dead
The lion
Of darkness
Will feast
For hours
Overstuffed
Will become his gut
He’ll consume
Until eating
Another ounce
Would mean death
Only then
After some
Deserving rest
Will he move along
Deeper into
The unfurling nothing
From where
Creatures like him come
He’ll come back this way
When the hunger
Again forces him
The world is full
Of killers
And those to be killed
As always
As planned by God above
The difference comes
In the fact
That those to be killed
At present
Point and time
Have no idea
That they are
To be next…


The Lion Of Darkness
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.