E.V. Wyler’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Sonnet of Syringa” (November 2016)

Damned and Desperate
By E.V. Wyler

Damned and desperate, the devils drown;
by tongue and trade they’re tethered down.
Towards Satan’s hell they swiftly sink,
dragging the converts they hoodwink,
masked in their cowards’ covert crown.

Their hatred’s hewn in your hometown;
gaily garbed in their ghostly gown
sinister masses move in sync,
damned and desperate.

Repentance’s role of renown,
the life raft offered, fools turn down.
The sadists’ bloodlusts interlink
so thoroughly through time I think
they’d prefer to die with a frown,
damned and desperate!