Guilty of the Greatest Sin

This is a story that is open to many interpretations. please be sure to tell me yours.

Guilty of the greatest sin

 

I walk down a dirt road

A road that goes nowhere

On either side of me I see bits of smashed houses

And dolls with missing limbs

Brown dirt shining crimson in the sunset

All I see on the horizon

Is more endless dirt road

I do not know where I am going

 

After walking for miles upon miles

I come to a bush, adorned with white flowers

Alone in miles of empty, dirt floored hell

It watches a disturbing scene

 

A mutated animal bakes in the sun

Not dead, but clinging to a painful, elongated life

A bleached red sky casts light on bloodshot eyes,

Barred yellow teeth

Dry blood covers its face

And a gash in its leg dyes the dirt a murky red

Next to it, its starving offspring moans

Looking for milk that will never come

 

I ignore them and walk on

For I must go the same way

I must live the nightmare I have created

And the death that I have bred

 

This poem is inspired by a painting by TL Solien called

The Seduction of Innocence

this is the picture that the poem is based off of