My Neighbor's BellA Poem by Ember Smyth
At seven o' eight, my neighbor rings a bell
And then it's seven o' eight in the morning I do not know what happens when my neighbor rings the bell Except for that everything goes to hell I know this because there's blood Blood on my hands, blood on my walls At seven o' eight, the bell calls And I am it's puppet Last night at seven o' eight my neighbor's bell rang And then, like usual, it was seven o' eight again And, like usual, blood on my hands, blood on my walls But this time, there was a body At first I was not sure if it was human It was so disfigured, so lacerated But I knew I had to hide it And that no one could ever, ever, know It wasn't seven o' eight this time, but an hour before When the police came a knockin' at my door And who was I to decline? Maybe I did need to be kept away And then it was seven o' eight, and seven o' eight again No longer was I in my cell But instead in my bed It must have been a dream Then I heard it on the news The massacre at the station And I knew then That I couldn't let this go on And so, gun in hand I made my way to my neighbor's house Shaking, oh so hard And it was then that I found the bell could also be rung at six, no, five o' clock And I never heard that wretched thing again I also, never woke up again But maybe it's for the better Until the bell finds it's new victim © 2016 Ember SmythAuthor's Note
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