Wednesday's Verse - A Deathly Lullaby
This week’s verse moves from a fantasy poem of heroism and self-sacrifice to a horror poem that could either be classified as urban fantasy or sci-fantasy. It is taken from the upcoming collection Another 365 Days of Poetry, a
collection of mixed-genre poetry yet to be released.
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I lived upon a lullaby
listened to the music sliding
by
thought to lift my head
and wonder why
so many wished for us to sleep
that they played this tune
in every street
in every house
in every land
at every bus stop, shopping
centre and news stand
and down we lay
just as they’d hoped
sound asleep
our futures stopped
until one day I realised
how long it was since closed I
my eyes
and thought to lift my head
and wonder why
I could hear a lullaby
and then I saw them come to
feed
knew that I would swiftly need
a counter to the sweet sleep
song
and so my guitar, I brought
along
and plugged it into the
telecom
so that every mobile, computer,
every radio station and empty
stage
came alive as I began to play
a jarring parody of a song
that better bands had once
performed
and woke I the world
until, with clashing sound
we managed the lullaby to
drown
long enough for better minds
to find solutions more
long-lived than mine
for the dissidence in my sound
barrage
was something banished to my
garage
and grateful as they said they
were
and stashed it in a safer
place
to be activated should they
find misplaced
the cure that stopped the
lullaby
and forced our predators to
fly
until we hunted from our lands
and seas and skies
the makers that fed when we
closed our eyes.
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You can find the first two poetry
collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with
more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be
released later in the year.
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