Atonement
“Under blue moon, I saw you
So soon you'll take me”
- Echo and the Bunnymen
I saw you...
Through the tree breaks, draped in nightshade, loomin so secretly
Still unbeknownst to me what you are, whether human or deity
I traverse the darkened woods around me, moving so creepingly
Feeling ashamed to be in your presence, even the moon looks displeased with me
Drawn to your flowing white dress, contrasted to the black hair dripping down your back
Are you an omen? Some kind of message from the past?
A stark reminder that nothing in this world ever really lasts?
Something that explains why I’ve had this same dream a decade and a half
I’ve spent countless sleepless nights, trying to decode it
It wasn’t until yesterday I finally figured it out...this is atonement
Legs sore from all the nights running when my peace came under siege
Used to refuse to believe in karma but now she’s standing right in front of me
I dwell amongst the living where I’m considered a monster
Twisted & rotten, a sinister, despicable imposter
They undressed me in the public eye, shed of my innocent skin
Served my time but if it was up to them I’d be hung again and again
When’s it ever supposed to end? Already punished for my sins!
That’s what I intend to ask you tonight, you’re with who this all begins..
I sheepishly approach the clearing where you stand with your back turned
Halfheartedness turns my feet to stone but I’m desperate for the answers
My, how you’ve grown since the last time I beheld your precious face
The moon rays radiate your luminescent youth as you stand center stage
As soon as I go to tap your shoulder, you shudder and let out an awful cry
“Mommy why??”
Instantly I’m petrified and want to die.
“MOMMY WHY?”
The disembodied voice comes from everywhere like rain falling from the sky
“Caylee, baby I’m sorry I-“
“Sorry for what?!
Sorry for suffocating the daughter you “loved?” Sorry for being a partying slut!?
You’ve spent the last 15 years of your life watching me from the trees
And that’s all you can muster? You want pardoned of your monstrous deed
No sympathy...if “it’s okay mommy” is what you’re hoping you’d hear
Think again, I know who you are Casey, past the smoke and the mirrors
You’re a flesh covered demon! A heathen! Fucking bipedal snake!”
.....The still girl finally turns revealing her featureless face
“I waited fifteen years for you in this dreamscape, my own forged torturous cell
But it’s all worth it since I’m the one who gets to escort you to hell!”
*With a single touch from her I start to burn internally until the flames consume me*
She looks down at the pile of ash remarking “sorry mother, but this is the way it had to be
Sometimes it takes more than blood to pay for atonement, rot in pieces, Casey Anthony”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill...Caylee_Anthony