When angels danced on their heads

 NAPOWRIMO 21 Prompt 6 Santosh Bakaya

When Angels Danced on their Heads

Demons clawed and guffawed

As strips of oozing flesh

Made heaps like spaghetti

Eyeballs full of clotted blood

Collected and played with

As in a game of marbles

Fingernails put in catapult strings

To hit the hovering scavengers

Vultures crows and eagles

To scare away the birds

Or do the birds scare the demons?

The dawn does, the dawn scares

Theirs is the night, dark and hollow

To grow fat and dance

Their special dance of horror

In all the devilish thunder

Demons and Devils brothers

Draw evil designs together

Here a single ray of light

Can herald a new dawn

Minimized to tiny dots

Erased to a wisp of smoke

Deleted by light

They stop to exist, they are no more

Light lights up land lake and lark

The world's aglow again

The world's full of hope

The light brings faith

The light brings love

The light brings peace

In the land and in the mind

Now demons and devils fear to tread

Now only angels dance on their heads

©Satbir Chadha