The Dark Woman's Warning

When I close my eyes it’s there again A nightmare that could only offend The dark woman stands with her hooded eyes Draped across her face in her disguise And she points at the word written on the stone In blood with large letters so it be well known I gaze across in the torchlight to make it out As I wonder if the writing was a warning tout But as the words became to me quite clear I cringed back at what it said in my fear For it said something that stabbed me in my head “Your fight is over for you are now dead.” © Paul Warren Poetry