Michael Edwards

WHERE THE BALLS OF HELL HANG LOW

 

 

WHERE THE BALLS OF HELL HANG LOW

 

You pull the strings the puppet moves

and takes you to the darkest path

where blood’s avenged by blood that’s spilt

and flows to where the dead lie still.

 

As ravens caw to moaning winds

with no melodic charm displayed

their throated song – a mournful hymn

and fear alone becomes the wraith,

 

In intervals of quietude

within the light of day  revealed

the scabs of memory are plucked

when twilight interregnum rules.