Poetry: Dance of Madness

[suewritero]

Author SueWriteRo (DW)/WriteRo (LJ)
Title Dance of Madness
Rating and warnings G, but angsty 
Word count 143
Medium Poetry
Setting early S7

 

Whirling figures dance

Through his mind

This one and that one

Spinning like tops

Never fixed

Constantly moving

Accusing, reproving

Victims

He remembers now

Gory, bloody endings

Playing with food

Mother would be so

Disappointed

Whirl, whirl, whirl...

Through his mind,

Confused, haunted

Nightmare visions

Populated by victims

Punctuated by death

Death

Death

Always death

Dark and bitter

Ashes in his mouth

Dryer than the cigarettes he

Smokes inhales deep into

Lungs no longer functioning

Whirling figures again

A kalidescope of images

Ever changing, never staying

Same... sane... never... ever...

And then

A light

A glow

A shimmer of gold

She dances into view

Memory and dream

Beauty and killer

Slayer

Bold, brash

Dancing, whirling

Focus...

Focus...

Focus...

Glimpse of sanity

Then gone as she

Whirls away

In a flurry of blows and

Recriminations

Dancing another dance

To a tune

He cannot hear.