Stiletto

Stiletto            9/21/2016

Some will stalk

And some will scheme

Just to steal your treasure

And murder all your dreams.      

They can kill a body

But some will try

And kill your soul

Jealous, greedy

And black as coal. 

Ugly is the face

But worse is the heart

Nothing but a vacuum

Bottomless and dead.

They cut me good

And he cut me deep

Stabbed in the back

In the blink of an eye. 

Hiding the shadows

Unseen and unsuspected

The wolf in sheep’s clothing

Needy, meek, and vicious. 

Cutting me off

And cutting me down

Lying and accusing

Behind my back

And under the table. 

There are some things

That a wise man

Would never do

But that has never stopped

The evil or the cruel.  

Time has passed

Both the seasons

And the hours

While I dangled in the twilight

Between hope and despair. 

For some reason I am here

And for some reason I write

The only way to answer

The constant cruelty

And opportunistic blows.     

As small as one person

And as great as the sky

The weight of evil

And chronic deception. 

Evil rides the dragon

And evil speaks in lies

Using and manipulating

Anyway they can. 

Selling favors for money

And blaming the good

The innocent accused

And constantly attacked.

In the night

You can hear their whisper

The same now

As it was then.

Calling out from the earth

And to the ear of God

Murder, Murder, Murder

Over and over again. 

He will answer

And he will avenge

Ripping through the veil

At the end of time.