Retribution in the Darkness
For whatever beast the pale
light shines,
it creeps across my broken
room,
where I lie, unmoving, stirless,
a lineless actor in a moral
play.
Thin wisps of life drift past
my lips
and dilute into the heavy air.
My limbs are numb, my thoughts
a smear,
but somehow to my dying eyes
the beast's searchlight is
very clear.
-- © 1989, W.A. Seaver.