A Trilogy on the Nature of Souls (TRIGGER WARNING)

Happy Halloween!

I. Demon-Child (My Release)

Blood.

The tearing of flesh

The sting of the warm liquid hitting cold air,

summoning the demon inside me

White stained red

- or is it red stained white? -

is the ground on which I stand

The black inside me threatens to devour my existence

- What existence?

To devour my heart

- What heart?

To devour my soul

- What soul?

It already has.

I put the blood to my lips and take a long, satisfying drink

The warmth drips down my chin as it drips down my throat

Red meets black in a roar of fury and a moment of peace

I laugh.

I am filled with joy, after all

The others may call me names -

demon-child,

antichrist,

Lucifer -

but I will stand here and laugh

This is my release.

II. Angelic Soul (Save Me)

Save me.

The demon inside me has taken hold and I am weak

I scream for help

I scream in terror

I scream in pain

but no one can hear me

Can you hear me?

Can you see me?

Am I real?

Or has the black covered the white?

A stain that is impossible to erase?

So fragile, so weak, so frail

This is who I am

I am nothing

I have been beaten, broken, destroyed, annihilated,

my existence completely wiped away

tossed aside like a broken plaything

This is who I am

This is my existence

Save me.

III. Human Being (I Will Fight)

No.

This is not me

I will not stand for this

I refuse to let you control me like a marionette

I am a human  being

I will not stay idle while demons run rampant

No more black

No more red

No more white

Just me.

What gives you the right

to barge in and take control?

Who died and made you king?

Certainly not me

So get out, leave me be

If you don't, I will fight

I will fight to my last breath

I will not stay idle

I've had quite enough

I will fight you until you leave or I am destroyed

I will not be destroyed

I will not submit

And I. Will. Fight.

Author's Note

So I meant to upload this last night, but I got a bit sidetracked because the friend with whom I was trick-or-treating wound up staying the night.
So here it is, my spooky little Halloween thing.

Here's how I envision it. There are five realms of existence:
Heaven (the place of angels)
The Veil (the place of ghosts)
Earth (the place of humans)
Purgatory (the place of monsters)
Hell (the place of demons)
Heaven and Hell are always fight, and since Earth is the halfway point, humans sometimes get caught up in the fight as well. You may have heard of possession. If so, then good. When a demon possesses a human, they do so forcefully. They take complete control over the human's body. The human may see what they are doing, but have no power to stop it. Sometimes, the process can make the human weak, so that if the demon were ever to leave, the human would die. In other cases, such as this one, the human may decide to fight back. If they are strong enough, they could exorcise the demon from the inside. If they are not, they may be destroyed in the process, and the demon will have a body all to it's own.

Authors Note (In the authors note): I portrayed the angel as weak in this poem, and for that I am sorry. I would just like to put out there that I in no way think of angels as being weak or helpless. They are warriors. I only did this for the sake of the poem. I portrayed the demon in an evil light, which is 100% what I believe demons to be like. I portrayed this human as a fighter, as I hope I would be in his situation.

Reviews

[gombeggar]

interesting poem...a bit muddled in some parts but I follow yer ideas

[kublakhan27]

This is a wonderful and ambitious piece, bordering on epic with its deep concept and intense narration. It's hard not to get caught up in the raw emotion of these words. Great work :)

[Lozzie]

Wow! I love your realm theory!! This is really quite extraordinary :) Well done and I would love to read more of your work!!!

[Sami Khalil]

A wonderful trilogy from a wonderous pen and poet...Always creative...:)....................

[Felicity's Eve]

I actually like that you portrayed the angel as weak. It shows all things have fears and doubts. I love how every part of this little trilogy flowed into the next and how the human, angel, and demon "interacted" with each other. Very chilling and perfect for Halloween, even if it's already over. Kind of reminds me of my situation and others I've heard of.

Great write!

Ps. Sorry I didn't read this sooner. I was planning too then a bunch of family drama happened and...yeah. I hate to admit but I forgot about it. :/

But I read it now and loved it! :)

100/100

[Westminster Abbey]

Thanks! I was worried something had happened with my laptop or the website or something because no one had reviewed it, but I was really too lazy to actually do anything about it.

[Felicity's Eve]

Well I don't see why people shouldn't! It's great ! :)

[Westminster Abbey]

Originally I just wrote the demon one and then I read over it and realized that if anyone in my family had got a hold of my notebook and read that I might be admitted to a mental institution :P So I wrote the rest of it to sort of soften it

[Felicity's Eve]

Lol If anyone knew what was going on inside my mind with my characters I WOULD be admitted to a mental institution. But wouldn't all fiction authors? XD

[Westminster Abbey]

Halloween is the one night a year where I let my inner sociopath take over as a psychopath

[Felicity's Eve]

Lol that's a big perk. :)