Sadist

A. W. Nutter

Listening to the grandfather clock

Ready to strike the midnight hour

A skeleton key will rattle the lock

In absolute terror a victim cowers

Sins hiding behind closed doors

Never to be revealed in the light

Satan's prisoner, on hells shore

Fear manifested during the night

The clock strikes the twelfth tone

Praying for an angel to intervene

Sadist walks in, heart made of stone

Toward insanity the child careens

New game deployed for gratification

Totally destroying the young boys spirit 

Physical pain, coupled to humiliation

 The gift of nightmares, his to inherit

Tears wetting the tattered pillow

As the skeleton key secures the lock

Prayers for death from a weeping willow

The shepheard ignoring one of his flock