I need it! I need it, now! Don’t judge me. You don’t know me and we all have beasts on our backs. Mine’s as demanding as yours calls to me at every street corner.
At a wedding, a woman inspires man’s delight in lust and vengeance. Of different generations, two men release their animal in a deadly fight for a promise she’s given to neither.
I built his chains. Now his words
seduce me. They promise pain.
“I will give you vengeance” I
extend the key then a voice of
purer intent softly says, “Don’t.”
Mock me; I won’t care. Laugh at
me; I’ll smile. Yell at me; I’m sure
it was my fault. Just see me again.
I’ll pay any price because the
silence is so much worse.
A man at the end of a pier gazes
into the nothing below and casts
a coin into the depths to tempt
fate to inspire him to act either
in suffering or in hope.