FEATURED POETRY: The Innocent by Julienne Raven Lingat

I am not innocent

And I may never be so again

For I have seen the darkness

Luciver has created within men.

My inexperienced and untrained eyes

Have seen the ever-present and towering waves

Waves of avarice and rapacity and greed

Reflected in the stare of a power lord’s knave

Through the grapevine I have heard

The taking of a maiden not more than ten and two

Bound, gagged, stuffed into a box, trapped

In the knave’s crowd of nightmares with no way through

The knave is not innocent

I’ve told you the terrible things he’s done

But neither am I innocent

For I’ve seen his darkness cover the sun

Then who is the innocent?

Well, it’s actually you

You, still without his marks, red as blood

You, still with the power to see what’s true

I am not innocent

And I may never be so again

But I hope your eyes can now see the darkness

Bared and exposed through words from my pen

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