La Llorona
Above and below...
White coats of air around the night
Flashlights of eyes from nocturnal creatures spy envious at the moon
Menage of strangers hide beneath the lunar light that listens...Listen carefully
while crickets curl their legs and shadows shy singly
Owls tattle incessantly in tall trees that tangle leaves in loaves
Before the wrath the wise wild wind waives warning signs around the hamlet
What horror doth become a happening?
As it was...
Violins play violent thru her lungs calamity
In the black water
Buried below beneath awestruck ascending
She sets foot on land in sand
Lips azure wars weeping in her eyes
Birds fly away beyond the breeze
Insects itch and scratch into their beds as ignorant antennas listen to the fear
forthcoming fever on their heads
Before the wrath the wise wild wind waives warning signs around the hamlet
Violins play violent thru her lungs calamity
As it was...
Silent children suffered
...her own children suffered silently in the night stabbed and pierced by hands
that reflected hers...
In the mirror their she was
Laying their bodies inside the black water made her take her own breath away
from the breeze birds bundle to breathe
Buried below beneath in death descending...
In the black water
Awestruck ascending...
Violins play violent thru her lungs calamity...
Ayyyyeeee...Mis Hijos..., Ahhhhhhhh....My Children!
What horror doth become a happening?
Copyright © Johnny Sumler | Year Posted 2006
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