Untitled Poems
Poem 1
Whenever someone turns
The lights on
Why
Why do I constantly seek
These dark shallow surroundings
I want to see
Feel the things light
Does not permit
Not void
Not emptiness
But the serenity
That these ominous beings give me
I do not feel pain
Around them
Or fear
Not even as they creep
Closer
And closer
And closer
Come to me
In trance
They put me there
And dance
To that sweet melody
The one that plays
In the background
As you eat me
As you slice me
Open
Raw newness
Of clarity
When the reaper
Comes to collect
Poem 2
Why wonder
When it comes down in front
Of your eyes
When all you see is It
And all It seeks is you
Why wonder
When you know that thing has come
For you
And all endings, you’ve learned,
End the same way
Why wonder
When your time has come
If you did everything right
All you could do
Why wonder
What It will do to you
When you’ve seen It
Kill so many others
Yellow eyes
Full of envy, greed, wrath
Blood spills out of its
Monstrous mouth
Runs down its sleek neck
Onto the surface of the gleaming wooden floors
Pooling at your feet
Shaking and begging the ground
Not to tilt
And give way to the abyss
But this is futile
Why wonder what might have been
What could have been done
How you could escape
When you’ve know all along
That I have come for you
And only you
Poems by: Shanny Lopez
