HOLE FOR SARAH

When Sarah was 17, something terrible occured.
As she walked to her car, behind her, evil stirred.

A homeless junkie coked out of his head
jumped Sarah & forced her legs spread.

6 months later he hung himself in his cell,
3 more and Sarah gave birth in a motel.

She had twins but to add to the madness,
one is born dead, imagine her sadness.

20 years later & Sarah is lowered into a hole.
To pay the reaper, that’s three for the death toll.

The one relation wipes her eyes on her sleeve.
Allison, the survivor, practically born to grieve.

Just leaving her teens, Allison never knew her mother;
Sarah was thought unfit, so Allison lived with another.

She begins to speak of her mother & of time lost;
proud of Sarah’s strong will, but at what cost?

Allison speaks as if someone was there,
having a conversation with the cold, thin air.

As an onlooker, I can swear that she was alone,
but I heard two voices as I hid behind a headstone.

Allison must live in a distorted reality,
one where she fits in with her schitzo-mentality.

But the fact is, because of a celestial error,
the next passage makes me tremble with terror.

Allison wasn’t talking to herself or another personality,
but to her twin sister, the product of a stillborn fatality.

It seems her spirit never found the way out,
Instead of Heaven or Hell, it took another route.

Now two decades past, Allison’s body is the host.
One part living, one part ghost.