The Leiry Loop

The Victim to the Accused

To say

I trusted you

is heartrending, absolutely

heartrending and lo, I had thought,

when I saw that you are

it—

I had thought—

But no, never did the

disappointment come, and I knew—

I know I knew—

I know I was not to say

I trusted you, my friend.

I never did.

You are the python,

you are the wolf, and

you are the devil in a pin-striped suit

wearing the stare of the innocent,

and never—did the disappointment,

the misery of knowing, arrive.

You need not

speak, you need not save yourself

for not even God nor the angels will.

Justice, to execution!

The Accused to the Perpetrator

My good sir, I humbly

ask of you to come, in pious ten

steps or two—forward, my good sir,

if there is still a shred of

humanity in your perverse

reality—free me of this sentence.

I am without fault, if fault

resided in that single moment—

I am without fault.

You are watching me writhe

in agony, I, the indicted,

the accused, but you are well aware:

I am not the architect

of this altered labyrinth that

continues to ruin the roots

of my passive existence as a friend,

as the guiltless. It is only you

that have the culpability.

I implore you, good sir,

do not deny me of life,

of life that I tread on with the

cleanest of feet and the

steadiest of hands.

My good sir, I will

bear no hate, bear no semblance of

it, if you make amends

with the truth—but quickly—

Quickly, before sunset

and before it is too late.

Justice, please vindicate me.

The Perpetrator to the Victim

I owe you no remorse;

what I did,

I did so with glee.

For I thrive in malice.

You are oblivious to it.

You, a casualty of my consensus

with the evil of man. My first

and not the last—the experimental

hatchling to my dubious

schemes and the fuel to my

ascent to greater madness.

Of all these you are ignorant,

to your eyes I am not to blame,

with not even an inkling

of knowledge that I was there.

To plot.

To desecrate.

To severe.

You will lose a friend—

no, you lost him—

you are the victim and the accomplice,

the denied and the denier!

But do despair,

do despair—

There is no Justice!