Terza-Rima

Donald Freed

Here is what the leader said:

They will do as I say

Until after they are dead

Here is what the leader thought:

I must teach them to die

As I have been taught

Here is what the leader feared:

A man who would forgive him

With blood on his beard

Here is what the leader craved:

The promise of corpses

That his skin would be saved

Here is what the leader dreams:

A man in shadows signals -

And he screams, he screams