Loaded River

-Loaded River-
by Keaton Foster



By the shore
Upon the waves
Shifting
Twisting
Impossible graves
Shallowness and depth
No matter the case
There, I see bodies
Rotten commodities
Paying for their sins
Via these very hands
I’d like to say
Straight up lie
That they deserved it
Every damn one
But of course they did not
I brought them down here
Showed them the horror
Then further subjected them
To what all of this has meant
Some screamed for their life
Others pleaded for sweet mercy
Oddly a few accepted their fate
Rest assured
Be very certain
That all of them died
Equal is both my judgment
And the associated actions
I am no God
Just a madman sidestepping
Time and eventuality
Just a killer
With a flair for the details
Loaded river
A collection of those deceased
Of those murdered by me
Killed not for sport
But rather for decoration
This place has always been ugly
Damn near impossible to look at
Now, with corpses tied to trees
Floating and thus rotting
In the swirling darkness
To me they appear like stars
In my very own darkening sky
Sure someone might come this way
Finding this beautiful mess
That I’ve left
But before they can escape
To speak of all they’ve seen
I will hunt them down
I will do anything to keep
The secret of this place
With just me
Once you kill for no reason
Every time after that is easy
Once you remove morality
Mortality becomes normal
And what is normal
No longer truly applies
We all live in these
Significantly dangerous times
We all face the madness
Some decide not to deal with it
While others decide to embrace it
Loaded river
Decorated with those deceased
I killed each one of them
Sure in time they will rot away
Easily they will be replaced
My darkening sky will shine
In the maddening pools
That swirl at my feet…


Loaded River
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.