Free me of this state mother! Stop selling me as a toy!

Free me of this state father! Stop fueling this evil ploy!

As I'm read by the apparitions around me, like a horrid novel of mistrust, I ferociously pick away at my skin.

Free me of this state mother! Stop exposing all I have left!

Free me of this state Father! Stop perpetuating petty theft!

Bullet for bullet, arrow for arrow, bone for bone, I race through this life like a one-winged wasp.

Mother! I am most appalled! I see you rot I see you boil!

Father! I am most confused! I see you seethe within this soil!

My life novel now ablaze! I'm a mere creature of puny relevance. This feeble mind disgusted, yet of no importance.

I saw you beheading pixie after pixie with a blackened blade of cosmic power!

Bathing in their blood and gnawing at their bones!

Will this be my fate? Certainly.

"Dear citizens of our beautiful town of Spearton! Look around you and indulge in the wonders of our town!"

The mayor smirks eerily.

"I have come forth to share good news! Great news even! My administration and I have gone to great lengths to capture a criminal who terrorized our city!

The mayor's smirk intensifies.

"But the days of terror are over now!"

The mayor's smirk slowly but surely turns into an insecure grimace, yet he tries his absolute best to hide behind his veil of perceived strength.

"Here he is, behold his evil!"

Two policemen escort a young boy onto the stage. He is clothed in a white t-shirt and green canvas pants. He is barefooted.

The young boy is grinning from ear to ear, seemingly happy to be here.

The crowd roars as the boy is presented. Excitement rolls through the dense crowd like an unstoppable wave crashing against the stage.

The boy is then positioned by the policemen to the right of the stage and brought to his knees violently. The boy laughs out loud as they almost strike him down.

With deafening power, the crowd starts to chant "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Some stop chanting to exclaim what the boy has done to them, fuelling the unadulterated rage of the crowd.

"He killed my father!"

"He poisoned my well!"

The boy was absolutely loving the noise, bobbing up and down in excitement. His facial expression one of pure joy.

"I will now do what all of you desire. People of Spearton behold what comes next!"

Exclaimed the mayor with great vigor. After his exclamation, he wipes the sweat of his forehead with the palm of his hand drying his hand on his gray suit.

The crowd grows louder. Sheer hatred and brutality rages within the mass of people.

He commands the two policemen to leave the stage.

He approaches the boy, positioning himself behind the boy. A mere foot away.

The crowd almost boils over onto the stage.

The mayor's smirk returns.

The mayor presents a handgun to the crowd that he pulled from a holster which was concealed by his suit jacket.

He raises the gun with joy, presenting in to the crowd.

A sick enthusiasm makes the crowd go mad at the sight of the gun.

He strikes the boy down with his off-hand.

The boy falls down face first.

He was still smiling.

The mayor emptied the gun into the boys back and head as the crowd erupts.

The mayor then runs back to the microphone exclaiming!

"We did it folks!"

The crowd now like a force of nature.

The mayor then picks up the corpse of the boy and tosses it into the crowd.

A scene of devourment followed. The boy's corpse being torn to pieces and consumed by the citizens.

As the mayor watches the perverted spectacle, he whispers to himself.

"I hate this. No. I love this."

I haunt you with my venomous tongue.

Like a lingering ghost, so close to your ear!

A natural born pigeon kicker!

Your scent like a gift of the heavens.

I watch you in your slumber.

As you dream of arcades and city lights.

My face peels at the thought.

Revealing a golden mask.

You are so graceful in your velvety sheets.

A red knee on the palm of your hand.

One, two, three, squeeze!

Steel spires like cold evergreens looming over my head of glass

As I replace my will with loathing

Nothing is as honest as the hate that drives me

Nothing as cold as my touch

Once more I transcribe

My thoughts into a sober sermon

As love oh so slowly turns

Into nothing but a feeble memory

Steel spires and barbed wires

Icy veins and dried out brains

Snowfall like a silent storm

All over me

Just another lonesome heat wave

I simply am a watchful eye

You still don't know of my existence

Of course you don't

I underwent spiritual metamorphosis

Just for you

Just for you, I morphed into a silent bird

With eyes that oversee your every move

In your summer dress

Like a phoenix taking flight

In your high tops

Confident as always

I remember seeing you at the nearby lake

Like a somber siren, you disappeared into the ripples

I know you so well

Yet we haven't spoken once

They call me the ghost of the forest

Clad in brown and black

Expelled from my house

Corey is my name

I cleanse the woods of a dormant evil

Yet nobody sees my efforts

As I protect my people

Without being one of them

As I wander this cold, forlorn land

I spill my life onto the soil

Leaving behind an ashen trail

Of shining gold and white marble; monumental in your glorious form

You are the chimaira, indescribable in how you move

Down where the old willows dance

I see you performing

A rite of the heavens blue

A night like a dagger in my spine

You're so marvelous, beautiful

Yet you have three heads

None of them smiling

The seasons change within you

And your core becomes inert

As the arrowhead pierces skin and flesh

Your slumber finds an abrupt end

This life, nothing but a fleeting memory

Nothing but a masochistic dance

Cicadas, like a frightful choir

Ravaging the silence of the night

Your patch of heaven

Stained by the lead you leak

A life spent in cacophony

Days of old, they seem so bright

Your heart, it longs for motion

But your body longs for rest

The gentle wind across your face

As you spread your luminous wings

Upon a green hill, half swallowed by the dawn

I stand burning brightly

Like a dominating quasar

Scorching the grass around me

You try to extinguish the fire

But my blood fuels the blaze

As the flames turn my body to ash

The wind carries my remains away

Far away to a distant domain

Where the dust that was once a mere human

Reforms into a shining star

An ethereal melody springs from your aura

Drowning out the hatred in the air

The wind of remembrance exhilarates my idle mind

Carrying away my name

A pink sapphire adorns your sternum

Illuminating our maze of a world

Your intrepid soul, so unshakable

Like an inextinguishable flame amidst a storm

Your voice sets the sky ablaze

All sorrow fades in your wake

You command the evening light

To embrace this desolate world