We all cheer on the heroine
urging her to overcome adversity
so sweet...so very, very likeable
that we reach into the pages
pushing her toward success and happiness.
It is the morally reprehensible
the lack of character
the rise of your pernicious side
that should garner your sharp eye
for a story must have evil to understand good.
The antagonist
against what the protagonist must surely,
as does the rain fall, contend
a battle of sorts in heaven or on earth
rises from the depths of our living hell.
Bells chiming from the fallen church
through the graveyard
on that ultimately moonless night
there rises the bone chilling fear
everything antagonistic.
Paint your evil
with the blackest of hearts and souls
pulling the strings of dramatic breath of conflict
for he is as vital to a story
as the sweetest of heroines.
barb
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