elouise stood at the roadside
and waited
when she was four
she had seen the sky fall
the shattering of the heavens
upon the fragile earth
screaming and the dying
the stink of humans burnt
when she was nine
in a remote and distant field
she found an angel cowering
battered and all broken
wings of bloodied stumps
just mewling and just shitting
eyes seeking upwards
and on her fourteenth birthday
at the village fete
the child of her fair sister
lay crushed beneath a cart
in her nineteenth year
her lover died in her arms
at the age of twentyfour
in the winter sun
the earth shook and crumbled
and the dead walked
til evening dawn
at twentynine
when the goats where herded in
one was heard to speak
and amidst the burning
and the prayers that swiftly
followed
turned and called her name
as she turned thirtyfour
a demon struck a deal
for the soul of her dead mother
and daddy lived forever
on the count of thirtynine
the sun darkened for three days
and three nights
and ghosts crawled the land
on the dusk of fortyfour
she simply stood
and simply waited
until the world
ended