Consuming Fire (aka Don Brennan)

A poem from 2018

Good guy gone bad

A string of setbacks

Crushed slowly

The turn

The introspection

The obsession

The faithlessness

Good guy gone mad

A victim of a scam

Insane evil

The burning

The hatred

The revenge

The all consuming

I'm the author of my downfall

I destroyed my life

But I don't take responsibility for my decisions

It was you

You ruined me

I can't forget it

When I close my eyes I see your face

When I sit in silence I hear your voice

Laughing

Mocking me

This will end in tears

Your tears

Your blood

I'm going to kill you

A life for a life

You took my life away

You

Your fault

You

Only you

You!

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Boudicca

A poem from 2018

Hell hath no fury like a woman flogged and made to watch her daughters raped

A woman scorned, denied her rights

Brutally treated by the most brutal who trample on mankind without a care

A stolen kingdom, she plots revenge

It simmers and bubbles and boils

Until it becomes a fire burning the guilty and innocent together

A wind ripping apart society

Wild, all in its path destroyed and offered to the gods of earth

Swallowing the offering whole

Victoria, a stone smashed into a rock and shattered

Rebellion meets its end

A woman dies

And I am left to wonder which is the lesser evil