The Prophecy By Brian Koester

The demon perched on the child’s chest

And whispered doom into his ear.

A shriek! then sobs and no more rest:

The demon perched on the child’s chest

In pitch dark. With a hellish zest

Now laughing, relishing the fear,

The demon perched on the child’s chest

And whispered doom into his ear.

 

Brian Jerrold Koester is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net Anthology nominee. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts and has been a freelance cellist.