Darkness

*Written during the District Level Eng Versification contest*

Searching for a light,

Plunged in silence so loud,

Darkness is what I find,

No matter where I look.

The darkness is profound

In every venomous fang,

Drooling with dark lust,

Biting into feminity.

The darkness is evident

In every blood stained hand,

Always in search of something

To be looted and consumed.

The darkness is definite

In the ever-hungry eyes

That see the figures on cheques,

But not figures writhing in pain.

The darkness is growing

In every straying mind

Thinking ‘I’ before ‘we’,

Always ‘me’ before ‘they’.

The darkness is ready to pounce

On every clueless soul

To corrupt it until its crippled

To choke it until its dead.

Only if I knew how,

I would tear away the dark veil

For, now the darkness is darker

Darker than it has ever been.