If you are familiar with my other poetry, you will realize it all has some symbol of hope or light in it, though sometimes it is masked. This is the first truly dark poem I've written. We are studying Dark Romantics in school (includes Poe) and I was giving examples for poetic elements. When I got to irony, this poem splashed onto my page, and when I went back to read it, I was shocked and felt almost. . . Bad for writing it. Me, a Christian girl whose poetry often references God, spins out this work of hatred, an evil woman, and a murdering husband! And I still can't figure out why I wrote it! There must be a facet of my mind that’s really dark. . .