Your Voice

Persona: Elizabeth describing Abigail

Your voice sounds like the beginning of the end,
Like a growling hound that has nothing to lose
Like a cat preparing to pounce on its prey
Like the mouse content to scurry away

The sound of your voice is the addiction to evil.
Letting loose the most savage, foul whims of the depths of human capability,
And making them seem as righteous as God.

Your voice is like the stench of burning flesh
And the laughter of the executioner.
Your voice creeps hatefully to every place that it can leave in ruin,
Into my house
Into my marriage
Into the town’s justice system
And it leaves a trail of ash and corruption wherever it goes.

Your voice sounds like a predator of the night
Preying on all that is real and true
A dictator leading the forces of chaos and depravity

Your voice is a lightning bolt said to be the messenger of God,
That sets fire to the church and to religion as we know it,
And that causes God’s word to burn away in the hysteria.

Your voice is an arsonist,
Reveling in its power to release chaos and destruction
And sneaking away, leaving everything to burn in your hell.

-Robert Kramer