Jonah Davis

He hunted    
that is what he loved  
this time,    
there was a small doe    
no point in killing her really,    
except he wanted to    
   
he followed her with his sights    
tightening his grip on the trigger    
he smiled, the forest shook    
the birds flew and the doe lay lifeless    
he ran to his kill    
kicking it with his right foot    
she was dead    
   
he didn't know what to do with her    
he knew he didn't want it,    
she wasn't a prize    
but he picked her up and slung her over his shoulders    
he started walking back towards his camp    
the sun was fading    
he picked up his pace    
   
he started thinking about a fire    
a nice warm fire and then he thought    
for a little doe she sure is heavy    
he shifted the carcass and felt it get heavier    
the sun began to fall from the sky    
when he noticed he had been going in the wrong direction    
this had never happened to the hunter before    
if he knew anything it was his sense of direction    
   
"What is your name sir" the hunter looked around crazily    
"who's there" he shouted nothing, silence    
he heard the wind blow through the leaves    
and then he heard it again "your name sir, what is it?"    
the hunter turned around frantically    
looking for the source of the voice    
"it is I sir the one who hangs around your neck"    
the hunter threw the doe to the ground    
   
her black eyes stared at him and he saw no signs of life    
her tongue hung from her mouth, the hunter was miffed    
he looked up at the darkened sky and sat beside his kill    
no way he was making it back to his camp now,    
he was exhausted, he took his hat off and closed his eyes    
"my name is Adelpha" The hunter jumped up    
he realized the deer that lay dead on the ground was talking,    
to him, he stood there frozen in a moment of temporary insanity    
   
"do not be alarmed sir, I mean you no harm"    
this cant be happening thought the Hunter    
he grabbed his gun and pointed it into the night    
and then back at the deer and then at the stars    
his mind had been screwing with him all day    
hes lost in the woods with a talking dead deer    
not even Bad Bob Crazy Claw would believe this    
he held his head and looked at the deer, "speak"    
he yelled, " did I anger you sir, again I mean you no harm"    
"what do you want from me" the hunter asked   as he pointed the gun at her head,  
"I want nothing from you,    
except your name sir, what is it you wanted from me?"    
   
"Did you kill me to feed your family?, or to keep them warm?"    
the hunter was silent he never moves his gun    
"perhaps you killed me because I was a danger to you?    
the hunter remains silent    
thunder is heard off in the distance    
they both turn there heads towards the north    
"don't worry sir the rain won't reach us, not now"    
the hunter put his finger on the trigger of his gun    
he shot her again    
   
Adelpha laughed well more like howled    
the hunter fell to his knees, his ears began to bleed    
his gun fell and broke    
he reached for the pieces,he whispered "impossible"    
"here, where we are, everything is possible sir"    
"shut up" he screamed "please! shut the hell up"    
the hunter held his ears and cried    
Adelpha cried with him    
weeping could be heard throughout the forest    
even the moon hung low on this night    
   
"sir tell me your name"    
"I will not speak to you, you are an abomination"    
"am I? or are you?"    
the hunter turned his back to the creature    
"sir, why did you kill me?"    
the hunter held his breath    
and he prayed    
Adelpha prayed with him    
get out of my head thought the hunter    
he grabbed her and slung her bleeding body over his shoulders    
he headed towards the sound of the thunder storm    
   
Adelpha was heavy and he felt her weight,    
like nothing he had ever felt before    
still weeping as he walked and he walked all night    
Adelpha asked him again " what is your name sir?"    
the hunter quickened his pace and she got even heavier    
he would not answer the beast, he could not answer the beast,    
as the weight became unbearable he was sinking down    
Adelpha wrapped her whole self around the hunters neck    
and in a terrible voice asked him once again    
"what is your name sir"    
choking on the words he just choked    
   
the hunter looked to the night sky,    
he faced Orion, the great hunter in the sky    
Irony held him momentarly    
owls began to land around him,    
all were screeching WHOOOOOO    
wind settled in the trees and just shook    
leaves trembled with the the hunter    
the forest had turned on him.    
   
Adelpha and the owls were enraged by his silence    
only his weeping could be heard    
" the hunter cries, and I bleed tears"    
Adelpha loosened her hold on the hunters neck    
long enough to give him a gulp of unwanted air    
" you shall die slowly with me and together we shall rot"    
she howled and the owls took there place amongst the trees    
the wind stopped and the leaves fell silent    
   
"we are of the same womb Hunter, born of different mothers    
in a different time, the necessity of my death,    
where was it? why did you kill me? not for food,    
not for warmth and not for weapon, you killed me    
for sport, nothing more, my death was meaningless    
yet yours shall serve greater purpose,    
not in this world but in another, your lesson    
shall be learned through tales of agony and loss!    
I am the loss and this is your agony,    
Hunter, my brother, my killer your time has come"    
   
the wind picked back up and Adelpha kissed the hunters head    
clouds covered Orion, the sky now black with death    
dripped cold rain down from above,    
she forced him to take another breath    
in that breath the hunter screamed,    
and he screamed his name "JONAH DAVVVVVIIIISSSSSS"    
the owls took the echo and flew off into the night    
taking the hunters name and placing on the tree of death