The Black Staircase

This is a poem written by my character Aiden Black in my book series. This is included in the first book, The Devil You Know.              

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 The Black Staircase

Take me down where it's too dark to see

Nothing but black not a light to flee

A flight on a spiral, a wave of a staircase

Are you brave enough to try

your feet meet with air

You really could fly

Or get caught in the stare

The wind sweeps you up

Fooled into trying

You think you're flying

but where the dumb meets the brave

is a riddle I've yet to solve

Crawling through the cave

You pour the misery over like

a thick sauce of years past

She didn't make this for you;

she doesn't know you exist

but when you get the chance

Ask her, was I missed

-Aiden Black, The Devil You Know © 2014 Elaine Ewertz

Cecilia's Song

This is a poem that opens a chapter in Cecilia's POV from the first book in my series, The Devil You Know. 

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Cecilia's Song

Merciless, ragged bones on fire
 Lies, innocent lives on the wire
  From the depths of her own private hell
   She takes a punch, her lips swell
    But she hides, hides it all away
     in the mirror, watch as her hips sway
      She thinks she is free
       Surely gone of misery
        Oh but it has just begun
         A battle she has already won