Beast from Water

Beast from Water

Perhaps that’s

What the beast is-

A ghost.

My dad says,

There’s things-

Squids.

Beast my foot!

He lost himself

In a maze.

Did not know

Where.

A thin wail out of the darkness chilled.

Who are you

Anyway?

Sitting there

Telling people

What to do.

Bollocks

To the rules!

Who cares, Ralph?

Ralph stood

Knee-deep

In the central grass

Looking down

At his hidden feet

Powerless to help himself.

Like dry leaves

Drifting,

And going rotten

Jack was

The broken storm

A thin wail out of the darkness chilled

Broken down,

Shaken by the wind,

And lost

In deep waters.

Too late to stop

And the spring had been tapped

Beyond the reach

Of authority.