Portent Of Things To Come

In the Big Bang of her birth Blood spattered across the walls The doctor's violent hand lashed the tender behind With a thunderous smack! A scream erupted from the newborn throat Gushing air And spewing hot anger upon an insensitive world That could so viciously Rip life out of the guts of the void. The scorching cries of pain burned through the corridors Out into the night and Deep into the darkest reaches of space Proclaiming to the universe 'I am here! ' ~ Laurence Overmire (Previously published in Report From X-Star 10, Indelible Mark Publishing,2009)