A boy as dark as night

Poem about Jack Merridew from Golding's Lord of the Flies

Once, he was the light,

helping the boys and taking lead.

Dedicated to winning the fight

against the elements, he soon was freed.

But not the way he was supposed to be.

His definition of freedom changed, he broke

the rules, became the darkness they feared.

The innocence of childhood, he had speared.

He twisted away from society,

compelled against what was right.

Death and malevolence roamed free

But as a boy, as dark as the night.

Perhaps he was been cursed.

A hunger for murder had arisen.

All that was on his mind was killing.

Perhaps, it was the mark refilling.

When a man spilt family blood,

A curse was put upon him.

An omen against the light of Nudd.

This boy became the omen.

And now it was his time to shine his darkness.