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.