Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The True face of Horror




What is Horror?
The word that often echoed by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
The word that has thousand meanings
The word that stops beating your heart

Remember Cruella de Vil who wanted to kill innocent Dalmatians
Norman Bates who is expecting guests at the Bates Motel
Freddy Krueger the disfigured, dream stalker who returned in our dreams
Halloween killer Michael Myers who showed no mercy

Could you imagine the sharpness of Jason Voorhees Sword?
If not think of the sharp smile of Dr Hannibal Lector

What is real horror?
Have you questioned your self for a moment?
Is it the fearful eyes of Transylvanian Nosferatu ?
Or the Villainous smile of Bela Lugosi

May be you were terrified by seeing   Phantom of the Opera
Played by Lon Chaney the Man of a Thousand Faces,"
If not Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Immortalized by Boris Karloff

Why fear for fictional and factitious horror?
When you are sounded by real horror 
The horrors of day-to-day life
Horrors that dictates our lives

Did you hear the political persecutions?
The ugly cousin of political extremism
Going hand in hand with the religious fundamentalism 
That kills the human growth and obstructs human freedom

For one moment, did you think about racism?
Which clouds human dignity and respect
Mad wars for racial supremacy
When all of us share the same DNA 

When you are surrounded by the real horrors
You are empowered and left without answerers
You become a living Zombie 
A man without moral consciousness

You can fight the horrors
By believe in your self
By believe in humanity and justice
You can defeat the horror
Until it is no more

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge 

4 comments:

  1. //Why fear for fictional and factitious horror?
    When you are sounded by real horror
    The horrors of day-to-day life
    Horrors that dictates our lives// මටත් හැමදාම හිතෙන එකක්.. :/

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  2. “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

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