Lindy

This poem was inspired by a new television show that I've just started watching on MTV called Eye Candy. It is about this female hacker, Lindy, who is being stalked by this other hacker online. It is a mystery / thriller that portrays the dangers of putting your life out there on the web. I've always been very careful treading water in the online scope of a social life, and in some instances this has made me a bit of a recluse. So I connect with this message a lot. I hope this poem speaks out about this as well.

A pair of black coals stare off into the web

With a poise on ice and rock hard leer

She is a black widow on the prowl

Searching through each thread for a fly

A morsel that would be stuck within her grasp

One chance to take a bite into the flesh

And discover something of her kin.

One twist of the right string and it all changes.

Into the darkness of night she'll wander

Weaving a web of connections unknown

So desirable and delicate are here red lips

That all those who she captures are lost

Like stalkers of the scene within a maze

Wondering when she will leap forth for them

Prey of here own tricky game of cat and mouse.

The huntress soon becomes the hunted.

Her world comes crashing down in heat waves

Upon the brick and rooftops of a virtual world

Embraced in sultry passion to cover the mess

The city so bright you can't see a single star

The widow walks in a shroud of death's shadow

For a single moment one string comes loose

And she feels like a human once again.

A thirst for murder, the perfect perfection.

In one fell swoop her web is cut down

Before those coal black eyes, she cries aloud

Tears into streams down the drain pipe

As she drowns, danger lurks in every corner

Trust faltering in a single spiraling fraying line

Fearful of the shadows that lurk around her

Another death and blood upon her hands.

Anger quenches the fear with new strength.   

Beware of the strange dangers that lurk in the dark.