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Meeting Belphegor by Bill Schott
Free Verse Poetry Contest contest entry

 
Walking one day, through the woods of the town,
 
I remembered a path, from when --
 
Oh -- right. The memories again.
 
My youth was a trial that most would find odd,
 
Time spent arguing with invisible beings;
 
no one was seeing what I saw.
 
Traversing one day, back then, 
 
through the woods of the town,
 
I discovered a hole, that became my heart.
 
There, in the woods, Belphegor stood. 
 
I thought to run, but strength was denied,
 
so I absorbed all the evil 
 
from this devil
 
which shows outward to all as sloth.
 
Somehow exiting the woods,
 
I returned to my home and did nothing.
 
Nothing was my goal,
 
my consciousness and soul.
 
I have since served no purpose,
 
save to bear mute testimony
 
to the sum of nothing 
 
leading nowhere. 
 
 
 

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Belphegor, Lord of Laziness.

     

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