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Luna’s Judgement
by Kim Richards

She haunts my days at times

Her bright face lights up my nights

Gazing through treetop silhouettes overhead

I hide within darkness, lest my deeds be undone

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I will be found.

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Ghostly judgement sublime

Drawing my guilt to new heights

I plead her, “Please don’t reveal he whom I bled.”

Her reply on whispered breeze betrays me; she’s won.

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I am spellbound.

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Her hollow laughter chimes

Flitting on wings of black sprites

My blood weak victim moans and stirs half dead

She draws back cloud curtains to shine on the one.

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I fall moss-bound.

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Fiction © Copyright Kim Richards
Image © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose