The Resident Evil

2.

It thrives unseen underneath;

Abides and bides its time,

Preparing to lurch and lunge,

Expunging unsuspecting victims,

Bequeathing direst damage

At any monstrous dismal moment.

4.

Its screams are mute and silent.

Its cobwebs, invisible and tensile.

Its creaking floor, an eerie echo

Pulsating from within the haunted soul.

Its poison. poised, reprehensible,

Waiting for the unwary to be drawn in.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

10-24-12

1.

Atrocities that are the scariest

Of all the seasons' horrors,

Aren't spooks and vampires.

This scary evil lurks rotting, deep

Within the human heart and soul;

Ever insidious, dark and damning.

3.

It darkens light to pitch blackness,

Bares brittle bones to dust,

Scares depths of love to ice,

Shivering, chilling everything,

Sending whatever's good inside

To run, to shrink, to hide.

Gruesome Halloween

Creeps in between

Our hallowed doors

On all its forked fours

To terrify and plunder

Our most sacred alms.

The fearsome strains

Crimson stains of

Shamefully shed blood,

The dirge and coffin,

Caskets full of death

Of all that's good

Which once had stood.

Now too often

Falters 'fore it fails.

Hear the screams,

The weeping wails

Of anguished pains

Of ghosts in chains

Upon this unholy night

Of heightened fright

When it is Halloween!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

rev. 10-24-12

The war within

Wages for the soul.

A person's normalcy

Disguises torturous turmoil

Showing through as evil

Mean spiritedness,

Expresses itself with

Hideous hatefulness.

Smiling all the while,

Pretending innocence.

True evil is of spirit.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

10-24-12