Horror Haiku Club Prompt
June 23 - Loviatar
The Finnish goddess of death and disease, Loviatar was born blind.
Your prompt is LOVIATAR.
Blind mother of death
Nine times you brought disease to
This already sick world
She gives birth to nine sons, each one representing a different disease: Colic, Pleurisy, Fever, Ulcer, Plague, Consumption, Gout, Sterility, and Cancer. The ninth son was called Enchantment and wandered the earth enticing humans to strife and envy.
Reach and grab and grasp
Fill my lungs with pestilence
I defy it all
Microbe manic rage-rat
Unseen , a dark night
Flees the probe and ‘scope light
To seek revenge—humanity’s fate
Equalizing population a fixed date
Death-cancer consumes itself to no end.