For the Dance of Death Poetry Contest of Robert James Liguori
Inspired by the song of that same title by Iron Maiden
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Beware the dancers who’ve ascended from hell, who come to the swamp lands or elsewhere at night. They transfix their victims and try to steal their souls, causing them to dance with them beneath the moonlight. If you should be caught by them, focus your mind. Don’t look at the doom in their soulless eyes. Pray to your God to help you to escape, for demons we humans have to despise. Pray hard, pleading, “Wickedness, be gone.” To their music don’t let your body sway. If you die, it needs to be to God’s light that you let yourself be carried away. Your life is precious, so take pleasure in it. And do your best to live your life well so you may avoid with your last breath the dancers who waltz dead souls down to hell.
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