Poetry Day: Never In My Presence

Good Vs Evil (Homer Simpson)

(Don’t remember the exact incident that caused this poem. It’s clearly about someone overstepping their bounds about my son. Honestly, the final line would probably be a better poem title.)

I heard you say it
A curse upon my child
Not yet at his second
Saying he will burn
Because I never tried to drown him

Do you feel you are holy?
Condemning an innocent
Raised in a separate faith
To be tortured if he dies
By monsters only you believe

I should rip your soul apart
Point out how you are warped
Preaching the words of god
That have been corrupted
By the sinful hunger of man

Yet you use these words
To say my son is doomed
Ignoring the innocence
And precious sweetness
Behind his every laugh

I hope that you are wrong
For if your words ring true
Then your god should start to pray
That I may never die
So I cannot hunt him down

I say it and I stand by it
You are the one to fry
Wishing pain upon a child
In an attempt to turn me
To your putrid path

Let all who lash with faith
Wishing torture on other souls
Be the first to feel the fire
For they are the truest sinners
These harvesters of hate

About Charles Yallowitz

Charles E. Yallowitz was born, raised, and educated in New York. Then he spent a few years in Florida, realized his fear of alligators, and moved back to the Empire State. When he isn't working hard on his epic fantasy stories, Charles can be found cooking or going on whatever adventure his son has planned for the day. 'Legends of Windemere' is his first series, but it certainly won't be his last.

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