Jan 8, 2015 Original Poetry
Child in Water
© January 8, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
A scream hangs in the air
Long after the deed.
Betrayal and terror
Clip five-year old wings.
Sailing over an edge
Into a void, crying,
“Daddy, I love you!
Save me!”
The heart stops.
Bones hurt with
Unending pain.
Cold enters deep
With fingers of frost
And icy dread.
Eternity is a few long seconds
Cutting off five years,
Choking off a child’s cry.
Eternity is the menacing dark
Rising up to meet you
Like liquid iron.
Eternity is waves, like claws
Closing over a still beating
Child-heart.
And I sit here and weep
At a mere headline,
While there, an entire
Beautiful bird-child
Spinning, spiraling,
Into brick-darkness, has been
Ended.
For her father,
What forgiveness?
None, I say.
May he rot
In the dung-heap
Of time.
May he crawl in
Unending grief.
May the waves of
Remorse rip apart
His beast-heart.
May he never more
Know human love.
Worse, may he
Know it, and never
Find it.
May sorrow tear
Him to shreds
Day after day after day
While his heart
Beats itself into
Nothingness, and he
Spirals, headlong, into
An unending chasm
Beyond death.
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On seeing the headlines: 5-Year-Old Girl Dies After Being Tossed Off Florida Bridge
Tags: Evil Father, Horror, Huffington Post /AP news story about a five year old girl thrown from a bridge