Tom Bloomfield At Wellwood

Infliction of relentless suffering---

and repetitious, writhing agony---

upon some live, but weak or helpless thing

is, for your soul, the peak epitome

of life; and brings you to the confirmation

of your twisted, perverse identity.

And this will have brought you to full damnation,

as horrible in its intensity

and as extended through eternity.

No one will hear your shrieks or cringing words---

no more than you heeded cries of small birds,

that you, slowly, tortured.  No clemency

will shave a nanosecond from your sentence;

too late you offer too little repentence.

 

Starward

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

The eponymous subject of this sonnet is a character in the novel, Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell, published in 1847.

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