just cuz i was bored

[7734]

just when you thought it was safe to roam the streets at night you find yourself surrounded by a twisted hellish plight they're slow, they shamble it seems easy to run away but just around the corner there's another, skin cracked and grey two weeks ago when your lovely sister died and chased you through the house it seemed so silly to hide after all she was small, only ten last september was that your father's eyeball in her mouth? if only you could remember if only you had more time to find your daddy's gun you wouldn't feel so helpless you could fight back instead of run so out the door! into the street! move quick and find some help! think not of little Jenny and Papa's gurgled yelp your neighboors, once alive crippled on the streets each one drowning in a pool of intestines and pureed beets each one slowly rising looking famished, wanting you each one living dead wanting human stew you dodge a few knock down the rest you can think, you can scream you can feel a heart within your chest you can feel your lungs refill and contract you wish you had said no to smoke and they might be intact the acid in your muscles will eventually grind them to a halt the treadmill was downstairs laziness was your fault and now you're unprepared to face this wicked curse every breath you huff in fear multiplies your thirst the supermarkets open but obviously you're too scared no food or water for you today not one second to be spared where's the cops, the swat, the helping hands you need? where's the tranquil summer breeze, or a moment to drink and feed? focus on the most important aspect of this day your Gods, they have abandoned you and turned you into prey

[Yojimbo]

Coolness. Well done, dude, well done!

[Legion2213]

This should be submitted to the fiction section. I don't enjoy poems as a general rule of thumb, but I enjoyed this one.

[Wyldwraith]

Once upon a time We bustled on our way Sleeping at the switch It was that kind of day There there came the rising Which no pundit had foreseen The population panicked Real facts remained unseen Pulpits preached of Judgment Science hemmed and hawwed Some said "It's a virus!" Others blamed the will of God That's all beside the point The dead are on their way We fat, we soft, we lazy Now it's time to pay One herd against another Cattle led down the chute They find joy in viscera We scream, we run, we shoot The breathing seek safe haven The shambling content to wait In seconds flat our nature will Ourselves obliterate First will come the discord Chests are thumped and pounded No attention paid the fact That our trail is hounded All the time they're out there Barbarians at the gate Focused on but one thing A hunger they long to sate Our sanctuary's crumbled Its their time at last The living blew their chances And now their time is past -------------------- Sorry couldn't resist. It's complete doggerel and doesn't even hold to a consistent meter, but maybe someone will get a laugh out of it.

[Redge777]

No we don't want to hurt you, we want to show you the light and make you one of us, come on in the water is fine. I really hope it wont be one heard against another, I like the herds banding together to speak to the ranchers, with the love we were taught by Jesus Christ.

[clanglee]

He's like a virus!!!! ^

[major jay]

Very nice poems. I enjoyed.

[Yojimbo]

He's like a virus!!!! ^ I have said it on another post, but something about all of it is sucking the fun out of HPOTD.

[Wyldwraith]

Thanks Major, I thought the 1st one was better, had better commentary laced in it for one thing...made it more GARish (no pun intended). But glad someone enjoyed my little off-the-cuff piece. Redge, never spoken to you before and since I'm just about as new here and your words to me were meant well, if a bit creepy, I'm going to tell you something my Mom told me growing up thats never failed me in life, getting into a woman's bed or getting out of getting my ass kicked. "Its never what you say, but how you say it that count" This is NOT meant to condescend in any way, I'll be saddened if its taken as such. But when you truly understand that saying of my mother's no one here will have any beef at all with you anymore.

[jdog]

good stuff i like the poems