"Crystal Lake"
written during middle school years, after a friend of mine drowned in Crystal Lake, an off-limits lake on Lady's Island, SC.
The mystic beauty of this place
Makes all my threats and fears erase
Yet, the weariness of how it took my friend
Will stay with me until the end.
And every time the wind sweeps through the trees
I can hear her voice calling "please, oh please!"
"You must stay away cause the water is cold
It's danced with evil, keeping it's stories untold
It is hated, and has dined with death
It knows how to engulf you, in just one breath
It took me, and it will take you too,
If you don't do what I'm telling you to do:
Run, fast, as fast as you will
This isn't a joke - it's all for real
Get in your car and drive far away
And don't come back any soon day!"
You'll soon find that the beauty
of this place is all fake,
This wonderful, dreaded, mystical
place - Crystal Lake.
