It Comes, With Sharp Teeth

 

It comes, with sharp teeth

To bite and rip apart

It comes, with claws gleaming

To tear and mutilate

Eyes that burn like fires

Growl shakes the earth

Pounding, smashing feet

Trample all before it

It comes, and makes the shadow

Of despair and fear and loathing

It spreads its darkness everywhere

And turns all to stone and death

And burns the lands around it

And consumes every living thing

It silences the birds, so they cannot sing

It withers the flowers, so they do not bloom

It kills the grass, so it will not grow

It destroys lives, so they cannot go

 

It comes, closer, sooner

It comes, tramping, stamping

It comes, darker, darkest

It comes, bleak and blackness

 

It comes

 

Gnashing

Snarling

Growling

Howling

Biting

Fighting

Clawing

Crawling

Slouching

Slumping

Rolling

Cutting

Gouging

Bleeding

Tearing

Ripping

Slicing

Vicious

Malicious

Hideous

Darkening

Maiming

Torturing

Killing

 

Death and decay await and travel with it

 

 

 

 

It comes…

Reviews

[Wanda S. Paryla]

My favorite lines are,
"It silences the birds, so they cannot sing
It withers the flowers, so they do not bloom,
It kills the grass, so it will not grow
It destroys lives, so they cannot go"

I like this work. The flow of the poem does well at relating an urgency, and the description is good.

[Vincent]

i really like this. the way you described the first part (lines 1-18) is just awesome.