Rumours

A Sestina, of some description, for my creative wrting class. This was unbelievably difficult. You want a challenge, try a Sestina.

I

I found the house; I’ve dared myself to go inside,

I’ve heard rumours about this place, but they are only rumours I hope,

Rumours about the couple who met an untimely fate,

When an escaped madman cleaved something so perfect,

And covered the walls in innocent’s blood.

II

I walk up to the door, my heart pumping panicked blood,

It rushes in torrents, terrified currents inside,

I might be calmer if it weren’t for the crushing dark,

There will be lights inside, I hope,

Or else this torment will be perfect,

Like it was constructed by fate.

III

Cruel fate,

Much to the disturbance of my much disturbed blood,

As I walk through the door and close it behind, I see the dark is perfect,

Not a flicker of light to be found inside,

So I venture forward and venture to hope,

A forced flicker of bravery will hold back the dark.

IV

One stride from the door and I am lost in the dark,

In the dark so spitefully created by fate,

I see a vision that curdles my blood,

A vision to make me lose all hope,

The pair open their mouths and shatter me inside,

A scream that is high and painfully pitch-perfect.

V

A scream so loud that it covers my scream so perfect,

I break into a run and cut through the dark,

But I am lost in this house, trapped inside,

And by a twist of fate,

I thump into something and my mouth fills with blood,

The pair didn’t hear me I hope.

VI

I look up and perhaps there is hope,

I can escape from the dark that has sealed me so perfect,

I swallow the blood,

I stumble through the dark,

I forget fate,

I escape from the inside.

VII

I look back, into the dark windows of the house,

The couple’s hands wipe blood on the glass, they are trapped inside, I hope,

So I run and I persist to forget rumours.

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

I know theres a jumble of modern and archaic sentence structures, but this was genuinely difficult, and i had a deadline.