Boo! Don’t be scared it’s just us, your lovely little friends at HCUPR. This frightful Halloween day we’re going to give you this little treat, so keep the tricks to yourselves… Today we feature a poem darker than the others that we locked up to release on this special day when ghosts and ghouls roam the Earth (not really, but just go with it).
So enjoy little creatures of the night.
Through the door I entered
Just like any other man
There I found her
Swaying left to right
Side to side she danced
Nothing to look forward to,
no one to bring her down.
Therefore she swayed
I had just arrived
yet nothing I had missed
just found myself late for the greeting
but early of the dance
for her things were going wrong that day
though they ended so, so right
this was clear to me because of what sustained her
I watched her over her and only saw sturdiness and strength
Nothing broken or weak, just an object and its purpose
And she swayed
as light on her feet as a dancer
her purely white dress flowed with the swing
yielded by red droppings
like if their one and only purpose was to reach the floor
a sweet mockery of life this is,
that a pure stainless girl ends up with this gray being
still there she was
and with a nick
she was released
I asked for her hand
she gave me consent since I would take her to the grandest dance of all
I, Death would be her date
and we swayed.