night to be alive

electric repulsion
animates
age old fable;
gives life to limb
when odds defy
and raise stakes
from cradle.

Is he alive?
latest appraisal
prescribed off label;
a broken mass —
victor’s monster
lifting off table.

struck lightning hot!
staggers alive,
tries to stay stable;
hears victor’s voice
fret a threat —
“a demon damned
has been enabled!”

body,
no longer willing —
monster’s heart snaps
like breakaway cable;
no return of love,
life’s cruel allocation
renders man disabled.