Contest entry, Writer’s Cramp, June 29 |
The scene still haunts me. Years have passed. I saw him as you Breathed your last. Macabre visions Fill my brain Of how you’d never Breathe again. No one saw me, But I was there Shrouded by shadows Everywhere. I saw the struggle, The loss of life. I thought that you Might be his wife. Innocence left me That dark spring night When you left this world By pale moonlight. He dragged your body Aboard a scow. There was no help For you now. A boy that night Scared stiff with fright, I smell vengeance In the air tonight. 28 lines Writer’ s Cramp New Prompt: Choose one of these song titles, and weave a story or poem around it: The Trees (Rush) Out in the Fields (Gary Moore) Fortunate Souls (Brenda Bee) Freight Train (Chet Atkins) In the Air tonight (Phil Collins) The story goes that Phil watched as a man who once attacked his wife drowned. Another version was that Phil wrote the song about a man who watched another man drown, and sang it to him at a concert. Yet another version claims that when Phil was a young boy, he witnessed a man drowning someone but was too far away to help. Later, he hired a private detective to find the man, sent him a free ticket to his concert, and premiered the song that night with the spotlight on the man the whole time. Of course, none of these stories are true. |