Poem: "There is a creature"

"There is a creature"

By Stephen B. Bagley

Within me, there is a creature

who seeks the broken shards

to spill opaque blood on razor edges.

to sanctify unnatural furies

to purify what cannot be

Within me, there is a storm

that twists and rages and burns

to shatter hollow cathedrals

to bring low the exalted

to raise up the castoff

Within me, there is a child

who is tormented and torments

to share its unknowable sorrow

to bring low those who judge

to weep for unreachable peace 

Within me, there is a creature

that twists, rages, and burns

to share its unknowable sorrow

to purify what cannot be

to raise up the castoff

to weep for unreachable peace

There is a creature.

Copyright 2019 by Stephen B. Bagley.

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