X-marked spot

 

X-marked spot

The yellow tape, taut and rigid, cordons the place.

Hush has a sound of it and is colored in gray.

Crows and curious men flocking to peep in

Face the dark smell of bereavement and stall.

The wind doesn’t dare to seek permission,

It is strolling and turning on the footpath.

“Death always happens to him who seeks it “

Someone says to someone as if   death won’t

Visit him or the man at inspection

With forensic precision. The birds lose

Interest and fly to achieve life from

The dustbins and leftovers. They are life.

And, right at that moment the death looks at

The cross-eagled prey that was a human.

 The yellow tape, the prohibitions, fear…

Blurs out of vision. Forensic science

Fails to take the prints of it that is standing so near…  

Reviews

[Beautifully Tragic xPoe..]

Great descripitive imagery. I'm probably off when I say this but I got the image of a police investigation of a death or something.... think it may have been the yellow tape line that triggered that. Great Write. Nicely done.

[George Love]

Very, very good work. Great descriptive imagery of the crime scene and the culprit as they admire their ahndiwork.

[alternative_be]

A very good description of a scene that has become all to common in several parts of the world. Reading this, one becomes conscious of the fact that we are not all that watchful as we should be.
The culprit coming back to the crime, sometimes it is all to obvious and indeed macabre.
One of the best of your poems I read so far!

[Kelly D. Burris]

Sometimes we can't see what's right in front of us. Very well done, haunting and unsettling feeling that keeps drawing you in.

[Wildfleour]

Just fantastic - macabre and haunting.

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

This reminds me of a scene from 'Law and Order' - an opening scene perhaps but with such depth of expression and description that one would not necessarily gather by watching it on screen. Thank you. Quite an undertaking.
Light,
Siddartha