Blood Is Spilled

Martha

Present

 

            He’s scared.

            I can tell.

            He tries to hide

his fear.

 

            Kevin says,

           May I talk to you outside?

 

            I say yes.

            I follow him out the door.

           

            He speaks again,

           What are you doing?

           I could easily kill you

           again, Martha.

 

            I scowl.

                        He thinks he can

get       

            rid

                        of me.

 

But it’s not as easy as he thinks.

 

            I say,

           I thought you loved me.

           But maybe with love comes death.

                                                I will do to you what you did to me.

            He can’t kill me,

onlySienawould die.

            I would simply move on to a new host.

 

           

                                    He lurches forward.

 

I hardly have time to

react.

 

                        Blood

                                    is

                                          spilled.

 

           Siena!

            Her mother shouts.