Hapless Sacrifice
Poetry by Daniel Chauvin
Grim gray visage
`Good Shepherd'
tracking wayward lamb
meandering
timeless pathways
hoof-trodden by
melodious Pan
Cruel fate anticipates
your late arrival
and swift
departure...
(Mother Sheep bleating):
"Vulnerable Softness!
Curs'd Curiosity
that leads astray!
What Beast shall feast
on your tenderness today...
will stain your virgin coat...
crunch your marrow'd bone?"
(`Good Shepherd'):
"Alas ye gods are playful devils!
Here stands your hapless sacrifice!
Honed blade housed
in age'd leather sheath
make good on blood-soaked oaths
like a grape
peel open this pale pink throat..."