Death Is Lurking

• Felicity Askew, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2015

Helpless,haunting,bitter faces.
Men lie sick screaming.
Boy drunk and stumbling.
Disappointed I watch.
Devils roam blind.
Fire,flare high.
Many men drowning in their blood.
Dime children under wagons afraid of their destiny that lies ahead.
This horrid world crumbling beneath your very feet.
Death follows your every move.
Death stalks you like you're a zebra in front of a lions grasp.
Death is upon you, death is lurking, death is coming for you.
You will be the next victim, so watch your back because you can never cheat death.
It's waiting for the right moment to trap you soul.
What follows is the horrific, gruesome torture, worse than any war that has been or is to come, for the rest of eternity.
The ghastly beast, now today as humans will die and suffer the same fate once happened before