Once dead. Now alive
Every place your shadow has been, I've been
Every smiling face you've seen I have worn
I have not one name but several
I come on a typhoon of mayhem
Of madness
A lone scream in the night
Announced by the distant cackling of mania
or the blood soaked slaughter of blade
I visit the insane in their padded cage
Devour the blood of living cattle
I consume life of the hopeful as I perform on gallows for my phantom audience
Your greatest fears are my pleasures
With your bloodlust you invite me in
I am the siren that lure you
The killer you thought you knew
One day I will be your mother or your father or your friend
Another day I will be your neighbor, or perhaps I'll work through you
I know the boney secrets hiding in your closet
The devils beneath your pillow
The nightmarish desires that you dare not think of it real
is real
These are gifts to you from me
I love you in my little way
With your yearning I am alive!
Can't you hear the laughter in the wind?
Don't you recognize the rhythm?
Is it you my friend, your struggling?
Your spirit torn limb from limb?
But I am not death
Death is your deliverer
Death looks to me with sorrow in his eyes and asks, "Why must you do this?"
My answer remains unchanged
I do what you cannot
No end is swift under my watch
Mercy is a mistake I correct
I am despair awaken with a torturer's grin
The agony you wish would end
I am your secret wish for others
I am their secret wish for you
I have not one name but thousands
But you... you may call me Scarrus
And I am pleased to make your acquaintance

adopt from this talented artist!. <3

Poem by me. :3