Midnight Surprise

by Amy J. Kline (Insomnia) - Virgo

Midnight Surprise

Nocturnal eyes
shone in the midnight air...
watching,
gazing with dark wonder
at all things
living and dead.

A snail crept
through mud
by the murky swamp,
as worms devoured
flesh long-buried
in damp soil.

No cricket chirped;
no lone frog croaked;
silence overwhelmed
land and water alike.

And just beneath
the surface of the filth
that none
would venture
to call water...

a mangled human body lay,
submerged
in death and grime.


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Birth sign: Virgo
Date created: 2002-04-24 16:38:45
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:23
Poem ID: 69358

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