Chaos at the Circus
by Destini Beckham
Trigger Warning: gory imagery, mention of demons.
Magic calls
from the great beyond
summoning one and all
to the curtain call.
With purple swirls
leading us all
to a circus tent
for one and all.
Where a somber melody
plays before us all
with the curtains covering all
did we miss the curtain call?
Then the curtains opened wide
and the magician steps outside
with the cat mask thrown aside
our eyes are opened wide.
To the horrors that tread inside
as his eyes are open wide
scars dart from side to side
on his face no longer kind.
Purple swirls
trap us inside
the circus tent
no longer open wide.
His neck has a scar
so red and wide
while his eyes are dark
with a demon inside.
Oh call call
one and all
for the doc
the hero and all.
Call call
one and all
before the demon comes
and claims us all.
Call call
one and all
those you love
before we fall.
The purple swirls
now reside
inside us all
holding us tall.
As the demon prowls
before us all
no time to run
no time to call.
This is our curtain call.
Author Bio
Destini is a recent graduate from the University of Evansville, with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. She has a passion for writing poetry and short stories from diverse genres and had a short nature poem “Time of Colors” published in the book Together by The America Library of Poetry when she was a senior in high school. Through her work, she wishes to inspire others to not only create artwork of their very own, but also to become better individuals to themselves and to others. Her goal is to one day publish a book of her very own.
This piece was written in the author's Junior year of College for their Intro to Poetry class.